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They could be powered by little rectennas, think RFID tag. Hit the bots with a radio frequency and it indict a charge and they power on and do their thing. Turn the radio off and they go inert.

So they could be injected into a tumor and powered by an external radio source.

In they're only powered by light a fiber optic filament could be injected in the activation site. So long as the light passes through enough tissue to power them you don't need to stick a halogen bulb up someone's butt.



Hard to do that when the antenna size is correlated with the frequency you can use. Tiny micro bots would need really high frequency signals


Gamma rays would work well. We can keep the existing radiation treatment equipment.

/sarcasm


Your cancer is gone...but don't get angry. Like ever.


A tuned antenna is correlated to frequency, a shitty antenna can be any size. In a microscopic robot needing likely µA of current an untuned antenna could be sufficient for power.

But that's me speculating, I don't know how to power an injectable micro robot. If I did the link might have been about me! RF might be completely inappropriate for power.




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