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Professor James Friend and his crew at Monash University have been researching and trying to miniaturize the tubes to look into patients body during surgery. Even in smaller operations, damage has been done because of the over sized tube that are being moved around in the body. It could sometimes cut and artery or blood vessel. They needed to find a way to fix that problem. They have been looking for an answer for the past two years. Professor Friend used
piezoelectricity, the energy used for stoves, in extremely small mechanical robots to swim around in the blood. This is an easy way to look at the problem in the body with out more damage done. I think that the scientific age is growing at a rapid pace. Miniaturizing objects is a very smart thing to do. It says in the article it could probably even reach the brain area with these small robots. I am shocked and intrigued by how by just making an object smaller it could have many benefits.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/01/090119210620.htm