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MIT develops robot that slithers through intestines like a snake

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MIT develops robot that slithers through intestines like a snake
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Worms are usually the last thing someone wants in their gut. Just ask this unfortunate Alaskan bear recently spotted with several multi-foot long tapeworms hanging out of its butt. However, a  new type of gut-crawling worm being designed by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), may actually be here to help. 



Their soft robot, called BIOSENTER, is designed to autonomously inch through the crowded, cramped, and coiled small intestine, contracting and extending

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