Posted 05.29.2012 at 4:08 pm
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Military Snakebot
This snakebot is much larger than the ones that'll be swimming around your veins/organs.
Courtesy Special Operations Apps
We've seen snake robots and, of course, tons of surgery robots (including the weird lamprey-bot), but Dr. Michael Argenziano, the Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center in New York, says we'll soon have fully untethered snake-type robots that will crawl through the human body, assisting with all kinds of fixes and maintenance.
There are lots of easily imaginable use cases--a snakebot for heart surgery would require only a small incision, rather than a wildly invasive slice for traditional surgery. One day, reports the AP, they may "be able to test chemicals or blood in the body, or even the electrical connections in nerves." Now we just have to get past the Indiana-Jones-ooginess of a tiny robosnake squirming its way through our bodies.
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Didn't stick it up my bum, but I played with it 3 decades ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik's_Snake
Good good, good, this little device will come in handy with the new prisoner terrorist of war cavity searches. We will get the information we ask. Oh yes... br ha ha ra haaaa!
Good good, good, this little device will come in handy with the new prisoner terrorist of war cavity searches. We will get the information we ask. Oh yes... br ha ha ra haaaa!
Huh... this is old.
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I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.
This is like Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 old. Remember that scene where the main character's girlfriend overdoses and they use a "snake like device" to filter her blood out? Yeha it's like that.
Science fiction is full of nasty creatures being inserted in people. I, for one, do not want worms of any kind crawling around in me.
Well amongst all the other parasites that crawl around inside the human body at lest we know what this one is and does.