PillBot Lets Doctors See Inside Your Stomach

<p id&equals;"temp&lowbar;ReleaseStart"><strong><span class&equals;"legendSpanClass"><span class&equals;"xn-location">HAYWARD&comma; CA <&sol;span><&sol;span><&sol;strong>&&num;8212&semi; <u>Endiatx<&sol;u>&comma; a pioneering Silicon Valley medical technology company&comma; is shaping the future of medicine with groundbreaking micro-robotics inside the human body&period; The company&&num;8217&semi;s flagship innovation&comma; PillBot&comma; is designed to wirelessly navigate the human stomach&comma; lowering costs and increasing access to diagnosis and treatments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">Would you swallow a micro-robot&quest; To many&comma; it seems like something straight out of science fiction&period; However&comma; at the TED and Amazon MARS conferences&comma; Endiatx Co-Founder Dr&period; <span class&equals;"xn-person">Vivek Kumbhari<&sol;span>&comma; live on stage&comma; navigated PillBot through the stomach of Endiatx Chairman <span class&equals;"xn-person">Alex Luebke<&sol;span>&period; Kumbhari&comma; who chairs Gastroenterology at the Mayo Clinic&comma; described how PillBot&&num;8217&semi;s simple means of investigating the stomach will greatly improve medical care&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">The PillBot micro-robot&comma; about the size of a vitamin pill&comma; transmits live video as it motors throughout the water-filled stomach&period; After skipping a meal&comma; a patient drinks water and swallows PillBot&period; The physician operator – who can be remote&comma; with the patient at home – then maneuvers the capsule via a controller and internet connection to scan the whole stomach&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">See PillBot showcased in <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4203795-1&amp&semi;h&equals;2528832570&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;youtube&period;com&percnt;2Fwatch&percnt;3Fv&percnt;3DiKBPrJ-AKRs&amp&semi;a&equals;an&plus;engaging&plus;TED&plus;talk" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">an engaging TED talk<&sol;a><&sol;u> and <u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;c212&period;net&sol;c&sol;link&sol;&quest;t&equals;0&amp&semi;l&equals;en&amp&semi;o&equals;4203795-1&amp&semi;h&equals;1529546626&amp&semi;u&equals;https&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;youtube&period;com&percnt;2Fwatch&percnt;3Fv&percnt;3DFmE93ox9e2c&amp&semi;a&equals;video&plus;by&plus;Adam&plus;Savage" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener">video by <span class&equals;"xn-person">Adam Savage<&sol;span><&sol;a><&sol;u> &lpar;of Mythbusters&comma; <i>The Matrix<&sol;i>&comma; and <i>Star Wars<&sol;i> fame&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">PillBot will complete its clinical trials later in 2024&comma; and Endiatx expects the device to gain FDA clearance in 2025&period; PillBot should launch commercially in the US in early 2026 and from there expand internationally – especially to developing nations that lack access to medical facilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">Since four out of five upper endoscopies do not detect anything&comma; PillBot™ will save many patients the discomfort of sedation and a hospital visit&comma; plus provide payers with a much more economical cost&period; At the same time&comma; PillBot™ will steer limited hospital infrastructure and resources toward the fraction of cases where an initial PillBot screening has deemed a full upper endoscopy necessary&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">With future AI-enabled movement&comma; automation&comma; and diagnostics&comma; PillBot will become even more efficient&comma; enabling systematic screening plus acute care&period; Diagnostic procedures performed by PillBot and its AI-powered successors will identify diseases such as stomach cancer – which claims some 800&comma;000 lives globally each year – early enough to intervene and save lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"prntal">Endiatx&comma; a team of 20&comma; has raised <span class&equals;"xn-money">&dollar;7 million<&sol;span> since its 2019 founding&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;