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Tiny robots speed medicine through body to the heart

Tiny robots speed medicine through body to the heart
Credit: Advanced Materials Technologies (2026). DOI: 10.1002/admt.71353

Johns Hopkins University engineers 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 treat other hard-to-reach diseases, including cancer, less invasively and more precisely.

“With just a little pinprick, you insert a microrobot and do a procedure without infection or blood loss...

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