HeartLander: There Can Be Only One

Gizmodo ran an interesting piece today that frightened, amused, disgusted and amazed me. Yours truly figured she’d share the delight:

“This little bug is called the HeartLander, a tiny little caterpillar-esque robot developed by the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh. Inserted via keyhole surgery, the HeartLander crawls across the surface of the heart to administer drugs or attach medical devices. Apparently this invention could revolutionalize the treatment of cardiac patients while making the rest of the world sick at the mere sight of it.” - Read More at the Gizmodo article.

You know what this means, right? This means we’re steps closer to nanobots and you know what that means?

-shifty eyed glance- I’ll be unstoppable.