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How You Could See Inside Your Body — With a Micro-Robot | Alex Luebke and Vivek Kumbhari | TED

Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doors to…

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Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how this technology can swiftly provide direct visualization of internal organs. Learn more about how micro-robots could move us past the age of invasive endoscopies and open up doors to more comfortable, affordable medical imaging. (This talk contains medical imagery.)

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65 Comments

  1. @ucan1

    June 26, 2024 at 7:31 am

    This is for Tech comments only ????

  2. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    June 26, 2024 at 7:35 am

    Penguin????????
    The first Earth Day helped transform the ways we interact with the world around us, and it changed how we viewed our impact on the natural world––inspiring the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and landmark legislation that protected the air we breathe, the water we drank, and the animals that lived alongside us.????

    • @RidingwithStymie

      June 26, 2024 at 11:20 am

      Not sure that was relevant, but okay.

  3. @MaybeYoureRight-1234

    June 26, 2024 at 7:35 am

    Save our planet????????
    Our world far too important and the time to ACT is NOW????

  4. @ptkettlehatsandthegang

    June 26, 2024 at 7:37 am

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  5. @Travel-Rizma

    June 26, 2024 at 7:48 am

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  6. @user-jd1kc9xw1x

    June 26, 2024 at 7:48 am

    An interesting diagnostic tool, the part that leaves me skeptical is when sterilizable, and reusable hardware is named as “more expensive” than a single use, high tech item… (chuckles) Unless there is a refundable deposit for “fishing” the hardware out of, and returning it from, your feces after the fact? Somehow, that makes the camera pill less than palatable to me…

    • @LeRoiJojo

      June 26, 2024 at 9:22 am

      I’m guessing that the anesthesiologist’s and nurses’ salary is what pumps the bill of an endoscopy, not necessarily the hardware used.

  7. @chocomalk

    June 26, 2024 at 8:20 am

    Trust us, this wont be misused!

  8. @LifeAreAmazing

    June 26, 2024 at 8:21 am

    3:15 do you see the Mentioned “Game Controller” it is a PS5 game controller. Good Ted Ad

    • @Me_and_fun

      June 26, 2024 at 9:19 pm

      Mhmmmmmmm, the funny controller in the submarine at the titanic?

  9. @gtavtheavengergunnerlegend3340

    June 26, 2024 at 8:36 am

    fascinating

  10. @alexgoslar4057

    June 26, 2024 at 9:07 am

    Fantastic.

  11. @victorraphael8028

    June 26, 2024 at 9:41 am

    No

    • @scdhl4

      June 26, 2024 at 10:49 am

      Finally, some common sense.

    • @scdhl4

      June 26, 2024 at 10:50 am

      Finally some common sense

  12. @neweyeswideopen

    June 26, 2024 at 10:02 am

    Innerspace anyone???

  13. @dyVal

    June 26, 2024 at 11:02 am

    Blue pill or Red pil ????
    M&M pinks only please. ????????

  14. @Abduaziz_777

    June 26, 2024 at 12:42 pm

    It is best technical video

  15. @RenataJensen

    June 26, 2024 at 1:01 pm

    This is a so great

  16. @connorhighland6783

    June 26, 2024 at 2:02 pm

    This is how they are going to get you!

  17. @youssefdahrouj2043

    June 26, 2024 at 2:16 pm

    There is already a device, not a robot, called capsule endoscopy, which you take as a pill and you can see the whole stomach and small intestine without the need to control the robot. Of the robot would do anything else it would be useful. But till now it doesn’t have any benefits. And most of the time you need to take probes for histology which the robot can’t and you need the classic method to do it… Hope the robot will enhance in the future, but now from my point of view it has no advantages

    • @IrresistibleWitch

      June 26, 2024 at 9:37 pm

      This one can be controlled that is an advantage.

  18. @Finnishpeasant

    June 26, 2024 at 2:20 pm

    Best presentation since Sam Hyde.

  19. @LiteraryStoner

    June 26, 2024 at 2:44 pm

    Now this, I love. Robots scare me but I was born with vacterl association. I have a lot of medical issues. This could potentially make a huge difference for me!

  20. @Daniel-sl4gf

    June 26, 2024 at 3:22 pm

    Lol! Are there microrobots inside of us? A brilliant idea wrecked by human nature. We can’t even trust each other’s texts, let alone our literal insides. This technology has the potential to save lives, but is it in the wrong hands? This is nightmare fuel.

  21. @Paperbutton9

    June 26, 2024 at 5:32 pm

    yes

  22. @highcue

    June 26, 2024 at 6:52 pm

    ????

  23. @nullnewbee3042

    June 26, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    Just imaging how this technology will be weaponized in future wars .. tens of billions of nano size killing robots will be spreaded in the air or river of war zone or cities…. ????????????????

  24. @vwhoo6073

    June 26, 2024 at 7:11 pm

    Wow! Humans are smart.

  25. @WeylandLabs

    June 26, 2024 at 7:30 pm

    Ted becoming an advertisement agency now ? ????

    • @thesunshinehome

      June 27, 2024 at 6:01 am

      it always was

  26. @tshorty90210

    June 26, 2024 at 11:56 pm

    It’s funny how technology evolves. I had a pill endoscopy almost 20 years ago and the battery lasted for around 4/5 hours I believe and now these only last around 45 mins but you can pilot them. Do you think we are going forward or backward?

    • @davidrichardson9593

      June 27, 2024 at 3:24 pm

      15:15hrs est

      NOW OF COURSE I WOULD NEVER DOUBT ???? YOU, BUT REALLY. WHEN & WHERE WAS THIS DONE ?
      VERY ILL ???? PERSON HERE MOST OF MY LIFE AND VERY MUCH STILL AM. BUT NEVER HAVE OR BEEN OFFERED A TEST LIKE THIS. MAYBE YOU SAW AN EPISODE OF LOST IN SPACE OR STAR ✨ TREK? GREAT ???? DRUGS EVEN?

      IT’S OK, TO BE FREE AND LET THE UNIVERSE KNOW ????.

    • @tshorty90210

      June 27, 2024 at 8:54 pm

      @@davidrichardson9593 I have a picture actually and cedar sinai in Los Angeles. I’ve had Crohn’s since 7 and have done many things that were firsts for kids like me

  27. @thesunshinehome

    June 27, 2024 at 6:00 am

    great

  28. @Matt.garrow

    June 27, 2024 at 8:49 am

    It’s amazing what this could mean for benefitting human life and medicine, more people need to see this medical marvel. I believe it will only get better

  29. @GeorgiosAndreasIoannou

    June 27, 2024 at 9:46 am

    NANOTECHNOLOGY! I LOVE IT!

    • @GrumpDog

      June 30, 2024 at 11:54 pm

      Not quite.

    • @GeorgiosAndreasIoannou

      July 1, 2024 at 4:48 am

      @@GrumpDog we’ll get there

  30. @Bythirteen

    June 27, 2024 at 11:46 am

    why are there no comments referencing the Magic School Bus? No “Mr Frizzle” jokes? Nothing?! CMON COMMENT SECTION

    • @WoodlandDance

      June 29, 2024 at 1:28 am

      Right? And Osmosis Jones is also along the same lines….

  31. @ema4770

    June 27, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    I’m the only one who catch the bait and switch in video ? He hes clutching the pill in hes mouth, he did not swallow it ( i think it is scared of the lithium battery like all technical people ) and the video is a pre recorded one from an endoscopy cam.

    Someone else did catch this ?
    Cheers

  32. @PapyrusEngineer

    June 27, 2024 at 4:00 pm

    This is amazing!

  33. @kthom4595

    June 27, 2024 at 5:35 pm

    Wait. How is this new technology? I was going to have an endoscopy 10 yrs ago, before my surgery, my endocrinologist showed me a pill that had a camera inside. But it was the size of my pinky. So what’s the difference???

  34. @user-oq1bw3ec8o

    June 27, 2024 at 7:52 pm

    A fantastic trip inside the human body. He introduces a pill robot. He first showed a big one that was invented first, bit then he showed a small one just as the seize of a multivitamin pill. Another doctor told how he tried to convince his patients to swallow that pill. He then explains about the small one and also showed what the pill is able to do whenever we swallow it. One of the ted talkers swallowed it and then his coworker used a remote control to se his body from the inside. It’s a sort of robot, easy to use. It will help people to long live. The other presenter said that it was easy to swallow. This pill replace diagnosis, and also will makr interventions easier. Doctors can analyse everything using these small robots.

  35. @aweslayne

    June 28, 2024 at 1:55 am

    Now this is real demonstration!

  36. @dohajnam

    June 28, 2024 at 3:04 am

    That is amazing. But in term of imagery quality, seem the endoscope therapy has better resolution.

  37. @hanh2122011

    June 28, 2024 at 7:46 am

    They did not disapoint me after i see a scientist swallow the robot. But i wonder how they retrieve it?

  38. @KarlLew

    June 28, 2024 at 10:37 am

    And then came the post-diagnostic YouTube sewer livestreams…

  39. @canhdieu-butgiaymuc1785

    June 28, 2024 at 10:42 am

    I love it! I wish I can do it.

  40. @PositivelyMe

    June 28, 2024 at 11:18 am

    Nanobots!

  41. @WoodlandDance

    June 29, 2024 at 1:10 am

    Dude – Osmosis Jones was way ahead of you ????

  42. @sureshsurendran737

    June 29, 2024 at 5:14 am

    Can’t wait for the day it becomes reality ❤

  43. @rbaz9454

    June 29, 2024 at 5:46 am

    Mini OceanGate but inside a human body ????

  44. @RandomAfrican-qh6vk

    June 29, 2024 at 4:41 pm

    Where do i sign up

  45. @DavidJones-kz6ik

    June 30, 2024 at 10:53 am

    Wow, Kurzweil was right!

  46. @robertl6046

    July 1, 2024 at 1:08 am

    This isn’t new at all. Pillcam has been available for like 2 decades

  47. @HmongCrypto

    July 1, 2024 at 7:33 am

    Imagine it being stuck in the body….

  48. @LeanPotato

    July 1, 2024 at 9:40 am

    It looks like they faked all of this demonstration. When they put it in the tank it almost immediately gets stuck on the surface (wouldn’t it do this inside the stomach too?), and it’s moving in large jerky movements anyway. Then he swallows it and at 4:20 it jump cuts to being inside a stomach (pre-recorded). It also loops the video at 4:53. The guy with the controller is also giving off major “fake game playing” vibes. He’s barely moving the sticks and keeps taking a hand off the controller to gesticulate.

  49. @falconpa

    July 1, 2024 at 10:42 am

    Amazing

  50. @bjflann6128

    July 1, 2024 at 1:00 pm

    This has been around for a while now. It’s called a Capsule Endoscopy. Gastroendoloogists use it all the time for certain cases.

  51. @Sparky5

    July 2, 2024 at 1:42 am

    Not practical.

    • @lannyjr1042

      July 3, 2024 at 3:14 am

      Explain? It’s in clinical trials now!

  52. @ttbalog

    July 2, 2024 at 3:57 pm

    Awesome stuff, well done docs. Respect!

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