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Building minds by building robots:
The small video devices that can be attached to tubes and inserted through natural body openings for medical exploratories and procedures sound pretty high tech.
But through nanomedicine, “people could swallow a ‘pillcam’ and would’ have to use wires,” said Emily.
That’s pretty heavy duty stuff for a J.D. Lever Elementary School fifth-grader. Emily and her classmates are getting ready for a regional FIRST LEGO League competition at the James Taylor Center on the Aiken High school campus Saturday. Eleven teams from Aiken and other areas are expected to participate, with the top performers going on to a state contest in January.
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