Miniature robot for exploring your inner self (quite literally)

Around the camera lens are placed four white LEDs and magnetic coils for focus adjustment. Two tanks with valves are prepared in the centre and a there is a capacitor to store electric power and a microwave video signal transmitter. 40% of the volume is free space, which can be used for surgical purposes such as medication spray, laser treatment, pH sensing and more.

Accurate spray medication and direct tissue sampling can be conducted through compressed air jets.RF System Lab also have a second device, the NorikaJr Endoscopic Robot Capsule which performs most of the operations of the first capsule but is smaller in size, with only a 1/10 inch Color 410,000-pixel CCD image sensor.

The size of this cutting-edge capsule endoscope is 5.8mm in diameter and 15mm in length. It is far smaller than the NORIKA 3 and its volume is 27% of original.

NORIKA Jr. has no capsule control function in order to minimize its size and it boasts user friendliness, especially for babies and elderly patients who have narrow gastrointestinal tracts.

RF System Lab's breakthrough began when they joined the Japanese Experimental Module Project, initiated by the National Space Development Agency of Japan in 1997.

It was important to measure information from within the body in anti-gravity situations but scientists wanted to obtain data directly from the gastrointestinal system by using non-invasive techniques. The Capsule Camera System was considered but first they had to design a battery free system to avoid toxic substances being utilized within the body.

ARF System Lab started this project in April, 1998 and has successfully developed the prototype with the Norika 1, 2 and now 3 Endoscopic Capsules.

While the whole world starts turning inside out as we further internalize our technology, new vistas of the human body are opening up to our vision and understanding.

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