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That depends on your perspective, particular since it says in the article "eventually, it'll be doing it inside your body". I believe it's intended for medical
by colinramsay 11y ago
That depends on your perspective, particular since it says in the article "eventually, it'll be doing it inside your body". I believe it's intended for medical use.
- Otik 11y agoYep, once it's done it can just navigate to the nearest acetone reservoir in the body.
- vladiliescu 11y ago"Making the entire robot dissolve in water is a bit trickier, but the researchers seem confident that it’ll be possible in the near future."
- jokr004 11y agoBut if it dissolves in water how is it supposed to make it anywhere inside your body? There's lots of water in there.
- lawlessone 11y agoContact lenses are ruined by contact with ordinary water but the saline solution and water in our eyes doesn't ruin them.
- sp332 11y agoSame problem, there isn't really any pure water in your body to dissolve robots in either.
- copsarebastards 11y agoI downvoted your comment for the following reasons: 1. If you had read/comprehended the article you would understand how they plan to address this concern. 2. Really, even without reading the article, your comment just shows a failure of imagination. It's really not hard to see how this early prototype might be developed into more mature, useful applications.
- Otik 11y agoThank you for sharing your reasons for downvoting, but you're wrong. I did read the article, I do understand their plans and I didn't have a failure of imagination. It's cool tech, and I made a flippant joke in response to someone's comment. Demoing that you can (partially) dissolve something in acetone or even water is not terribly impressive, even if their self-folding and mode of locomotion is pretty cool.
- jakejake 11y agoAh I didn't really think of that - perhaps it was my own evil nature projecting onto the project!