My “Boldly Go Where No-One has gone Before” (or “How Far will Big Drug Go to Root Out New Markets for their Cures”) award goes to… a team of Italian and Korean scientists.

They have developed a prototype of a miniature remote-controlled crawling robot complete with six legs, a battery and a teensy weensy camera. Although still working the bugs out of their, um – bug, they are already generating headlines like, “Robot pills crawl through intestines to find disease”, and “Tiny gadgets could replace more painful invasive procedures.” The FDA is already predicting spin-offs in the form of more personalized tax audits and such.