Techotic Gadgets

For many people surgery holds the ultimate in phobias. Therefore, surgeons constantly strive to find less invasive ways of performing major and minor surgery. Boffins at the U.S. Carnegie Mellon University have invented a snakelike robot known as the “CardioArm ” which has been developed for heart surgery procedures.

All the Doc has to do is make a small incision that will allow the robo-snake to slither inside the patient’s body. From then on, the CardioArm is operated by remote control via a monitor and a gamer’s joystick.

The multiple jointed snake can be controlled through its head and the rest of the body follows on just like a real snake. This means the body always follows the path that the head took, avoiding the risk of organ damage.

Upon reaching the heart, it can perform a variety of procedures without ever opening up the patient’s chest. Of course, it’s only possible to make the snake in very small sizes to allow it to get around the body easily.

The prototype is 300mm long and just 12mm in diameter; the eventual aim it to create a slithering robot that can move along inside a human blood vessel. Another aim for this snake is to be able to involve no knife at all, as the robot will enter the body via natural opening such as the mouth or nose.
Now which would be the biggest nightmare, the surgeons knife, or the robotic snake that can crawl into your mouth and move around anywhere inside you?