Just last year , we render you the concepti - Snakemedical robot , and now a different team really has a interchangeable equipment for real : the CardioArm . This little robo - tentacle is being developed partly at Carnegie Mellon University , and is apparently the most conciliatory endoscope ever that follows its own camera - head in a snake - like manner through your viscera . Since it infix the consistency through a undivided incision , it ’s much less traumatic for the patient : minimally invasivesurgery is reset the fashion ahead .
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Its serpent / tentacle consistence is design to do cardiac operating room without damaging other tissue on the way in to its destination . presently their small paradigm is 12 inch long and just 0.47 across , with 102 degrees of freedom and is joystick - steered by a sawbones . Successful cardiovascular operations have been extend out using CardioArm on cadavers and pigs , and more across-the-board human trials are upcoming .
It ’s a technology beseem to many unlike operating theatre , but not until it ’s a shade small : at last the team plan to miniaturize it to the point that it can get in via a vena . That ’s air the biggest frisson down my backbone , I can tell you . [ TechnologyReviewviaMedGadget ]
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