Could the future of healthcare be a tiny robotic camera? Swallow this 13mm pill and you can pilot it around your stomach for a view into your body.
This moving eyeball is really just the tip of a modern endoscope. Technologies like these could dramatically change the way we get information about our bodies. Pillbot could help mitigate GI health from symptom-based care – often thought of as “sick-care” into healthcare, where you can catch and treat diseases before we experience any symptoms.
Theoretically, Pillbot could offer modern, affordable healthcare for hundreds of millions of people. But we wanted to try it for ourselves. Come along as Nick swallows a Pillbot, drives it around his stomach, and finds something unexpected.