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Could tiny robots replace open-heart surgery?

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Could tiny robots replace open-heart surgery?
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Scientists have created robots the size of a pencil tip intended to travel through the body to deliver medicine to infections inside a beating heart.
The bots, designed to replace risky open-heart surgery and ineffective IV-drug therapy to treat life-threatening heart infections, could also be used to less invasively and more precisely treat other hard-to-reach diseases, including cancer.
“With just a little pinprick, you insert a micro robot and do a procedure without infection or blood l

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