Robots want to crawl around your brain - for good purposes, we assure you. Robotics continues to make astonishing progress in the world of surgical procedures. A magnetic "soft robot" developed by those wizards at MIT can enter a person's body through the femoral artery, then (guided by a metal wire thread) travel on up to the brain to remove dangerous blood clots. This remarkable technology earned notices in Vice, TechCrunch, and other sources around the web.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/robotics-news-whats-trending-in-september-2019