HONOLULU (KHON2) -- Engineers at the University of Hawaii at Manoa announced they have made a significant medical breakthrough for surgeries in an inaccessible part of your body. Download the free KHON2 app for iOS or Android to stay informed on the latest news UH officials announced the development of "tiny squishy robots" that can work together through the "body's complex network of tubes and vessels." The robots would help with minimally invasive procedures as they can "deliver medicine to multiple locations, perform several tasks simultaneously during medical procedures and conduct procedures remotely. ‘I can do this,’ Honowai 6th graders get a taste of the medical field Officials said the robots would especially help those who have to travel long distances for specialized medical procedures. We can maybe also leverage the medical resources in the mainland, right? So thinking about a doctor that can operate some machine, and all of the signals could be transmitted to Hawaiʻi in real-time, and they can operate these teeny, tiny small-scale robots for the proper medical treatment. Tianlu Wang, UH Mānoa College of Engineering Assistant Professor Each bot interacts differently with surrounding tissue and is individually controlled through magnetic fields by a single external magnet. In addition, they can adapt to the body's natural pathways. Find more Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai news here Officials added the research was a collaboration between UH Mānoa, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany, ETH Zurich in Switzerland and Koç University in Turkey