Microbots offer eye-opening possibilities

It sounds like science fiction, but Swiss researchers are developing a robot tiny enough to be injected into your eye.

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Published 19 April 2011 4:45pm

Updated 23 August 2013 5:14pm

Source: SBS

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The microbot will be used to deliver drugs or perform retinal surgery less invasively and without the use of anaesthetic.

The founding Director of the Australian Macular Degeneration Foundation says scientists are doing things today that he wouldn't have imagined possible 10 years ago.

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