Research
Battery-free ingestible electronic capsule with programmable high-output soft actuation for active gastrointestinal interventions
Science · By Hubiao Fang, Ran Xie, Xi Jiang, Jiaqi Zhu, Chen He, Kexin Zhang, Wei Tang, Hanjie Wang, Wenyan Zhang, Qifeng Zhu, Qing Cao, Jie Hu, Huayong Yang, Li Zhang, Zhuan Liao & Dong Han ·
The Brief
- A battery-free ingestible electronic capsule with programmable high-output soft actuation has been reported in Science Advances.
- The device is designed for active gastrointestinal interventions.
- The work was published in Science Advances, Volume 12, Issue 46, November 2026.
Why it matters
It describes a battery-free ingestible device that can actuate soft structures inside the gut, a design approach relevant to researchers developing swallowable medical electronics.
Who’s affected
- biomedical engineers and researchers in ingestible medical devices
- gastroenterology researchers
- #ingestible electronics
- #soft actuation
- #gastrointestinal
- #battery-free
- #medical devices
Science Advances, Volume 12, Issue 46 , November 2026.