‘Researchers from Pontedera, Italy and Seoul, Korea, are developing a prototype capsule designed to crawl though a patient’s stomach, enabling doctors to view and even treat an internal ailment remotely.

The scientists are testing prototype through animal stomach tissue and have also developed a system for controlling the leg movement. Each leg is made from a shape memory alloy, which “remembersâ€? its original shape and reverts back to it each time a step is taken.’

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