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We have a GUT feeling this robot is going places. #TEDTalks #Robot #Medicine

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. Watch the full video:

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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. Watch the full video:

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  1. @m10h11T5Trere-t

    May 14, 2025 at 2:01 pm

    I watched this video and laughed so loud my cat thought I was crazy. Now we have a new relationship🐱

  2. @m10h11T5CoCo-o

    May 14, 2025 at 2:01 pm

    Redéfinissons “Netflix and Chill” en “Disney+ et parlons des dessins animés préférés de notre enfance”✨

    • @benwarped7272

      May 14, 2025 at 2:12 pm

      just another rich invention only the rich can afford everyone else will still but cut open because it is cheaper ❤

    • @artjaspermarquez5228

      May 15, 2025 at 7:03 am

      ​@@benwarped7272No, wait for 5-10yrs and there will be a Chinese Version and it will become accessible to all, West Develop but it’s far to accessible to everyone and after a decade or 5yrs you’ll see a Chinese Version that everyone can afford.

  3. @y4sm33n

    May 14, 2025 at 2:07 pm

    This is so cool

  4. @m10h11T5Duatat

    May 14, 2025 at 2:08 pm

    Your videos are a real inspiration! I watch them with pleasure, each new release is like a discovery for me.🦎❤️🍕

  5. @joesmith4443

    May 14, 2025 at 2:10 pm

    What Could Go Wrong? 🤷‍♂️

    • @Martyr217

      May 14, 2025 at 2:44 pm

      I would say at worst the battery dies or shorts and the thing passes through the system.

    • @Advanced183

      May 16, 2025 at 12:07 am

      You need surgery to get it out. These things suck. I’ve been doing them for years but now they make ones that move. I see a lot of issues. Good luck with this

    • @joesmith4443

      May 16, 2025 at 8:41 am

      @Advanced183Not to mention the privacy issues (which NO ONE seems to be talking about) currently in the US have the weakest privacy laws not to mention these nano bots can be used or are used in modern day combat

  6. @mikerotch4597

    May 14, 2025 at 2:11 pm

    Wait until it gets stuck in the mud

    • @OurHeroXero

      May 14, 2025 at 2:21 pm

      Das fiber

  7. @peacesteve6986

    May 14, 2025 at 2:15 pm

    Looking forward ro the growth of this 🔥🔥🔥

  8. @truthseeker9014

    May 14, 2025 at 2:31 pm

    Whoever took the mark of the beast, has this already….

    • @thespacenoob4760

      May 14, 2025 at 3:55 pm

      name checks out

  9. @igorpaiva653

    May 14, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    Sooo, how exactly do you retrieve it?

    • @VincentIsHuman

      May 14, 2025 at 3:14 pm

      How else?

  10. @sallyredgrave1036

    May 14, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    My dad helped make concord I touched space with him as I’m a seed alive aware sun’s also very busy being our lifesource and gas is earths fuel not yours

  11. @sallyredgrave1036

    May 14, 2025 at 2:40 pm

    Noones said dinosaur

  12. @sallyredgrave1036

    May 14, 2025 at 2:44 pm

    I’m alive noone tells me anything I’ve got hot in chest lucky I’m not dead my ancestors are pissed it’s creation man made war charity backstabbing hurt darkness sucked out by spider or drained am nitvevolving hare hate will rabbit survive 🎶 💔 alive alive alice 🎶 💔 tics y do we need infestation by robots what the hells happening this is very evil 😈

  13. @DoctorSparta

    May 14, 2025 at 3:00 pm

    Is he going to do the “getting it back” part on stage too?

    • @AciidBraiin1991

      May 14, 2025 at 4:36 pm

      Would you be interested in that part?

    • @pedecadonstudios714

      May 15, 2025 at 7:34 am

      I wonder how many arms and legs united is going to charge for this.

    • @tokeri4198

      May 15, 2025 at 8:20 am

      @pedecadonstudios714 8 is the starting price 12 and your unborn if you are uninsured

    • @DoctorSparta

      May 15, 2025 at 8:56 am

      @@AciidBraiin1991 as a concept, yes. As a visual, no.

    • @AciidBraiin1991

      May 15, 2025 at 9:27 am

      @@DoctorSpartaI’m happy to hear that you master the nuances, the different shades of reality.

  14. @ZeeVee-t8g

    May 14, 2025 at 3:55 pm

    its been expeeimented on ( military veterans) as guinea pigs. it can get stuck, then you need major surgery, it could burst youe stomach, kidneys, colon, but they wont tell you that.

  15. @downsquatching

    May 14, 2025 at 4:13 pm

    Where’s the water come from ?

    • @robertjones7666

      May 15, 2025 at 1:07 pm

      The water it is in.

  16. @QasimDL

    May 14, 2025 at 5:11 pm

    Ps5 controller okey

  17. @skylane1828

    May 14, 2025 at 7:50 pm

    The Nano particles in the Covid shot are even smaller and they are replicating as we speak.Wonder why all the “Turbo-Cancers” all of a sudden?

  18. @tewhekerapaki7904

    May 14, 2025 at 10:52 pm

    Who owns the rights on this product? I’m going to buy shares. Money in the bank….

  19. @陳鈞鼎

    May 15, 2025 at 9:18 am

    你 我 他她

  20. @robertb1633

    May 15, 2025 at 1:14 pm

    Did he say it was the size of a “SMALL multivitamin capsule”!? That thing was monstrous.

    • @AFPinerosG

      May 17, 2025 at 10:43 am

      When they lie to my face like that, I’ll just assume they are lying about more stuff.

    • @Michelle_Brouellette

      May 18, 2025 at 4:33 pm

      That’s about normal multivitamin capsul size

  21. @JulianoNicolau-d5n

    May 15, 2025 at 4:46 pm

    Dune: Prophecy

  22. @andybaldman

    May 15, 2025 at 5:17 pm

    Remember when TED wasn’t one huge commercial?

  23. @andybaldman

    May 15, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    Can make a pill-sized robot, but can’t get a jacket that fits properly.

    • @MaxYari

      May 16, 2025 at 3:24 pm

      Yea imagine people caring about health and science instead of superficial crap. Crazy right.

    • @Boogie24U

      May 17, 2025 at 7:12 am

      other than picking the correct jacket size, please feel free to list your achievements

    • @andybaldman

      May 18, 2025 at 2:10 am

      @@Boogie24U Google me.

  24. @SkywayRobB

    May 15, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    What’s new here is that it is steerable. The tech to take pictures and transmit them to an external receiver while naturally passing through the gut has existed for years. I swallowed one in 2007 and another in 2014.

  25. @mikezooper

    May 15, 2025 at 6:15 pm

    The video of the robot that goes up the other way was obviously edited out 😂

  26. @gregnezz

    May 15, 2025 at 6:33 pm

    Dennis Quaid is freaking out right now….

    • @jaceshaffer8104

      May 16, 2025 at 2:53 am

      Nice one 😂

  27. @yamanlarevi

    May 17, 2025 at 5:16 am

    😮

  28. @kumaaddi5139

    May 17, 2025 at 6:03 am

    Lets hop he nav to to right tract, cause.. yikes!!

  29. @rajeevpandey22

    May 17, 2025 at 7:12 am

    great

  30. @icecoldyellowredbull

    May 17, 2025 at 8:29 am

    “Looking for blah blah blah”

    Can’t see anything with that stupid thing

  31. @joebradley3250

    May 17, 2025 at 10:18 pm

    Should sell the prototype to bad dragon

  32. @fishrsa9046

    May 18, 2025 at 12:30 pm

    That’s a “small” multivitamin capsule huh

  33. @Slapsofathousand

    May 18, 2025 at 7:04 pm

    Who’s thinking of magic school bus right now?

  34. @John-Spirit

    May 18, 2025 at 10:30 pm

    Dr Frankenstein had nothing on these guys

  35. @fromonhigh891

    May 19, 2025 at 12:45 am

    Bruh

  36. @chris-o7z9o

    May 19, 2025 at 2:52 am

    Classic invention that starts out with good intentions but you can already see the cynical “military applications”

  37. @michaelmeredith9141

    May 20, 2025 at 6:05 pm

    He never swallowed it. Watch again.

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