7/8/2023 0 Comments Isnake medical robot![]() ![]() 'It could revolutionize surgery,' she says. Previously inoperable brain tumors might suddenly become operable. Designed by a team at MIT, the tiny, swallowable bot’s meaty exterior dissolves when it hits the stomach, revealing a robot doctors can use to navigate foreign objects (think swallowed batteries) out of the body. Burgner-Kahrs envisions a day when one of her snake-like robots, guided by a surgeon, would be able to take a winding path around the vital tissue but still reach the precise surgical site. Maybe snake bot will befriend my other favorite piece of 2016 medical robot technology: meat robot. (Oh, gamified surgery! Fun!) With the help of the robot, doctors will be able to perform surgeries in traditionally hard-to-reach places with minimal invasiveness and “remove otherwise inoperable tumors and reduce the need for radiation treatment for certain cancers.” Of course, you have to be okay with that whole doctor-shoving-a-robotic-snake-down-your-unconscious-throat thing. Instead, a doctor positions the snake in a patient’s mouth and controls the device with a “joystick-like controller,” as well as “lasers, graspers, and other instruments,” Bloomberg reports. At least, that’s what Howie Choset of Medrobotics and inventor of Flex Robotic System is hoping. The i 2 S n a k e robotic endoscope is an evolution of the previous iSnake system. The global medical robotics market was valued at 16.1 billion in 2021 and is expected to grow at an annual compound growth rate of 17.4 percent by 2030. ![]() The future of medicine is apparently opening your mouth wide and letting a snakelike robot take it from there. Illustrates the different categories of continuum robots and gives a source point with examples for the discussion below.
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