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A robo-thread wiggles through some of the body’s most intricate spaces

Guided by a magnetic field, a wiry robot wends through a replica of the blood vessels in the human brain. Credit: Kim et al., Sci. Robot. 4, eaax7329 (2019).
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Nature 573, 8 (2019)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02579-4