Microscopic robots flowing in our bloodstream could carry out future surgeries.
Pisa University Professor Paolo Dario showed off models of microscopic robot surgeons that will zoom through the bloodstream to carry out emergency surgery in places human hands find hard to get at.
He said the Aracne bots, controlled by external joysticks, would be ''like something out of Fantastic Voyage'' - a cult 1960s sci-fi flick starring Raquel Welch.
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