'...told The Guardian that the public usually gets over such fears pretty quickly, adding that people will get “used to it pretty quickly.”
Even if this is the case, it will take a few more years before the technology passes safety and clearance. The researchers need to guarantee that every robot leaves the body or biodegrades, and refine the magnets that control the robots to ensure proper behavior inside humans. This usually takes 5 to 10 years.'
goatlover•7mo ago
I'll pass. I've managed to get through life so far without robots going up my nose, so I think I can make it the rest of the way without such a luxury. But if the future is robots going up orifices, why not remove the need for TP?
bombcar•7mo ago
Could be the same robots! Up the nose and out the “hose” perhaps.
danillonunes•7mo ago
I hope they do the nose first.
supersparrow•7mo ago
I am personally looking forward to shitbots that live under my toilet seat and clean my butt for me.
mongol•7mo ago
First I thought these were some kind of killer bots, so I was releived to learn they were just doing regular maintenance.
sitzkrieg•7mo ago
i will pay fists of money to be first in line for testing something like this even if it has turok2 risks involved.
my sinuses are my enemy. constant pressure and sloshing pains being my background noise for my life will bring me to try dust with logic
fcpguru•7mo ago
alright, it took some negotiations but I got them to agree you are first. They are working with legal to get the right language in the waiver you'll have to sign. It will mention turok2 risks.
IAmBroom•7mo ago
Yeah, not currently, but in the past I'd have been open to someone literally roto-tilling my sinuses.
Robot sinusbusters? Bring'em!
sys_64738•7mo ago
I've seen this movie before and it doesn't end well.
PorterBHall•7mo ago
I'm a nope for space flights. I'm a nope to time travel. I'm a nope for snorting nanobots.
I guess I'm just too 20th century for all that stuff.
vivzkestrel•7mo ago
would be even better if they can go up your ass, melt all the poop so that the poor folks with fissures do not have to suffer anymore from hard stools
snapplebobapple•7mo ago
Magnesium is your friend here. There is a product called natural calm that is basically flavored magnesium citrate. Keeping upping the dose on this until you get to the pooping out water big macs from 1984 level of pooping then back it off slowly till you achieve the consistency you want. Usually it ends up around the dose on the bottle or slightly more. Fiber has nothing on magneaium as far as fine tuning the water content of your poops.
sedgjh23•7mo ago
MiraLAX (or any of the generics) three times a week does this for me, and according to my doc is safe to drink for the rest of my life. Good luck soldier.
cornhole•7mo ago
im waiting for the nanobot enema
daft_pink•7mo ago
What could possibly go wrong? Lol
Art9681•7mo ago
This is the wildest headline i've read in quite some time.
dsr_•7mo ago
The only relevant bits of the article:
'...told The Guardian that the public usually gets over such fears pretty quickly, adding that people will get “used to it pretty quickly.”
Even if this is the case, it will take a few more years before the technology passes safety and clearance. The researchers need to guarantee that every robot leaves the body or biodegrades, and refine the magnets that control the robots to ensure proper behavior inside humans. This usually takes 5 to 10 years.'