A start-up in California, Bionaut Labs has found a way to treat disorders by sending tiny robots deep into your brain using magnets.
Sending tiny robots deep within the human skull to treat brain diseases has long been science fiction, but according to a California start-up, it could soon become reality.
Bionaut Labs expects to begin human clinical trials for its tiny injectable robots, which can be carefully steered through the brain using magnets within two years.
"The idea of the micro robot came about way before I was born," stated Michael Shpigelmacher, co-founder and CEO.
"One of the most famous examples is a book by Isaac Asimov and a film called 'Fantastic Voyage,' where a crew of scientists goes inside a miniaturized spaceship into the brain, to treat a blood clot."
Micro-robot technology "that used to be science fiction in the 1950s and 60s" is now "science fact," according to Shpigelmacher, much as cellphones today contain incredibly powerful compone...