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– No one yet has figured out how to shrink doctors so they can make house calls inside the human blood stream as they did in the science fiction movie “Fantastic Voyage.” But the founders of a gastroenterology startup think they have the next best thing – a remote-controlled robot so small it can be swallowed like a pill.
The company executives envision that one day robots small enough to enter the human brain will be able to eat away at tumors. “Imagine having your brain surgery while you’re on a ride at Disneyland,” said Endiatx cofounder and chair Alex Luebke. If that sounds fanciful, Mr. Smith cites a case report of a botfly larva that wormed its way into a human skull and ate a golf-ball sized chunk of brain.
The most immediate technical challenge is improving the quality of the pill’s video. “We’re evaluating different cameras but we know we can’t be inferior on the imaging side,” Mr. Smith said.
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