HONG KONG - Imagine a piece of slime slithering through your body, making its way through your small intestine to give surgeons "an extra hand." That's exactly what Professor Li Zhang and his team of ...

Scientists have created tiny magnetically-manipulated robots. But why? It turns out there are lots of applications for a controllable substance that can fit into tight spaces. As seen in New Scientist ...

Scientists have managed to make a magnetic slime that looks disgusting but is actually quite astounding, if not a tad creepy. The slime is made from a blend of a polymer called polyvinyl alcohol, ...

Scientists working at the Chinese University of Hong Kong have created something that looks horrifying, and only gets more upsetting when you learn it's designed to crawl around inside your body. The ...

A gooey, magnetic slime robot that can squirm through narrow passages, grasp objects and fix broken circuits captured the imaginations of science fiction fans worldwide earlier this year, drawing ...

A magnetic slime robot is a prototype that aims to recover swallowed objects that made their way to the body and have no chance of getting digested by a person's organs. Some things remain on the body ...

[Li Zhang] and his colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have developed a blob of goo that can navigate complex surroundings, grow an ‘arm’, grasp a wire and move it, encapsulate a ...

[Li Zhang] and his colleagues at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have developed a blob of goo that can navigate complex surroundings, grow an ‘arm’, grasp a wire and move it, encapsulate a ...

A robot made of magnetic slime could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as retrieving objects swallowed by accident.https://t.co/EYpnx56vNO pic.twitter ...

This potential treatment may not be for the squeamish. Accidentally swallowed a magnetic ball? Not to worry: Hong Kong scientists have created a state-of-the-art “slime robot” that can be magnetically ...