This minuscule “magic school bus” pill can detect cancer
Would you swallow this 13mm robot? This moving eyeball is really just the tip of a modern endoscope that you can pilot around your stomach. Technologies like these could dramatically change the way we get information about our bodies. Pillbot could help mitigate GI health from symptom-based care into healthcare, where you can catch and treat diseases before we experience any symptoms.
Theoretically, Pillbot could offer modern, affordable healthcare for hundreds of millions of people. So we wanted to try it out for ourselves. Come along as Nick swallows a Pillbot, drives it around his stomach, and finds something unexpected.
Nick Tucker is the host and co-creator for the Freethink Original Series Hard Reset. You can check out all Hard Reset episodes here.
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