The wonderfully readable New Scientist magazine reports that European scientists have developed a worm-inspired robot that crawls through intestines.

A robot designed to crawl through the human gut by mimicking the wriggling motion of an undersea worm has been developed by European scientists. It could one day help doctors diagnose disease by carrying tiny cameras through patients’ bodies.

Send your therapy bills to European Scientists c/o Europe.

On a bright note, I take comfort in the notion that washed out UAV pilots might one day find work in my colon.

I was going to say that last sentence didn’t come out like I hoped it would, but then, there is no good way of describing how futurepeople will play in your lower intestine.