Media reports indicate that patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit. This could be a reality thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station. Fifteen years ago as a graduate student, Vladislav Djakov started building these micro-electromechanical creatures that mimic the swarms of bugs found in nature. Equipped with a power supply, limited intelligence and monitoring ...Sunday, 19 August 2012
Space Bugs Inspire New Blood Clot Testing Device
Media reports indicate that patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit. This could be a reality thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station. Fifteen years ago as a graduate student, Vladislav Djakov started building these micro-electromechanical creatures that mimic the swarms of bugs found in nature. Equipped with a power supply, limited intelligence and monitoring ...
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