×
ADVERTISEMENT

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The Robot Will Scope You Now

Autonomous Capsule, Disposable Upper Endoscope Among Devices Presented at GI Meeting

By David Wild

Picture sitting back while a robotically controlled capsule endoscope swims through your patient’s gut, or conducting an upper endoscopy and viewing the procedure on your smartphone instead of investing in a monitor.

If two experimental devices presented at Digestive Disease Week 2017 pan out in clinical trials, these scenarios could become reality.