Active Robotics Laboratory

Dear Richard Bridgman,

Thanks for your post, I did not get an email address for you so I though I should reply via the blog. My email address is r.mcelligott@reading.ac.uk if you wish to contact me directly. Our research is related to robotics and hence, most of the posts on this site are in some way involved with robotics. The post you were looking at in perticular is research not done by us but I did take a look a look around the topic a little further and have a list of links that might be interest.

The research on that perticular arterie clearing robot is being conducted by researchers at Chonnam National University in Korea, and from what i have read it has been tested  (limited) and can travel 55 yards in a week inside the body. The link to Chonnam National University  [click here] . The source for this information is the Telegraph and New Scientist.

Some other articles on related topics are listed below:
[1] Drugs Delivered By Robots in the Blood Stream
[2] Bug Propelled Subs
[3] The Smallest Builders in the World
[4] Nanotechnology Rules

All the best,

Richard McElligott
r.mcelligott@reading.ac.uk