Fantastic Voyage, minus Raquel Welch

"This is startling and perhaps more than a little
scary. Can assassination by nanobot be far behind?"
- Cheers, paranoid Bill (thanks Bill)

clipped from http://www.theengineer.co.uk/Articles/298694/Robot+vessels+for+blood+vessels.htm A team at the NanoRobotics Laboratory of Institute of Biomedical Engineering carried out the breakthrough study under the direction of Professor Sylvain Martel. n research echoing Fantastic Voyage, Canadian scientists have succeeded in guiding a computer-controlled microdevice through the artery of a living animal at a speed of 10cm a second. ’Injection and control of nanorobots inside the human body, which contains nearly 100,000 kilometres of blood vessels, is a promising avenue that could enable interventional medicine to target sites that so far have remained inaccessible using modern medical instruments such as catheters,’ Professor Martel explained. ‘In collaboration with our scientific partners, Polytechnique researchers have begun developing several types of micro- and nanodevices for novel applications, such as targeted delivery of medications to tumour sites and diagnoses using navigable bio-sensors.’