Want A Robot Snake Crawling Around In Your Lungs?

[Revoltingest]

Ew.
Ew.
Ew!
This snakelike robot slithers down your lungs and could spot cancer
Excerpted...
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach. The tool could improve the detection and treatment of lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases.

In a medical paper released in the journal of Soft Robotics last week, scientists from the University of Leeds unveiled a new “magnetic tentacle robot,” which is composed of magnetic discs and is roughly 2 millimeters thick — about double the size of a ballpoint pen tip — and less than a-tenth-of-an-inch long.

In the future, the robot’s use could be expanded to help doctors better, and more thoroughly, investigate other organs, such as the human heart, kidney or pancreas, they said.

“It’s creepy,” Pietro Valdastri, the project’s lead researcher and chair of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Leeds, said in an interview. “But my goal … is to find a way to reach as deep as possible inside the human body in the least invasive way as possible.”

 

[JustGeorge]

Better than a real snake.

Robots don't leave droppings.

 

[Revoltingest]

Robots don't leave droppings.

They could be programmed to.

 

[viole]

Ew.
Ew.
Ew!
This snakelike robot slithers down your lungs and could spot cancer
Excerpted...
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach. The tool could improve the detection and treatment of lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases.

In a medical paper released in the journal of Soft Robotics last week, scientists from the University of Leeds unveiled a new “magnetic tentacle robot,” which is composed of magnetic discs and is roughly 2 millimeters thick — about double the size of a ballpoint pen tip — and less than a-tenth-of-an-inch long.

In the future, the robot’s use could be expanded to help doctors better, and more thoroughly, investigate other organs, such as the human heart, kidney or pancreas, they said.

“It’s creepy,” Pietro Valdastri, the project’s lead researcher and chair of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Leeds, said in an interview. “But my goal … is to find a way to reach as deep as possible inside the human body in the least invasive way as possible.”

Does it talk?

ciao

- viole

 

[ChristineM]

Better than a real snake.

Robots don't leave droppings.

Or shed their skin

 

[Revoltingest]

Does it talk?

ciao

- viole

What would it have to say to a lung...."hello"?

 

[viole]

What would it have to say to a lung...."hello"?

Dunno. Talking snakes have a reputation for being dodgy. Might convince that lung that smoking that forbidden cigarette is good for it.

ciao

- viole

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Ew.
Ew.
Ew!
This snakelike robot slithers down your lungs and could spot cancer
Excerpted...
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach. The tool could improve the detection and treatment of lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases.

In a medical paper released in the journal of Soft Robotics last week, scientists from the University of Leeds unveiled a new “magnetic tentacle robot,” which is composed of magnetic discs and is roughly 2 millimeters thick — about double the size of a ballpoint pen tip — and less than a-tenth-of-an-inch long.

In the future, the robot’s use could be expanded to help doctors better, and more thoroughly, investigate other organs, such as the human heart, kidney or pancreas, they said.

“It’s creepy,” Pietro Valdastri, the project’s lead researcher and chair of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Leeds, said in an interview. “But my goal … is to find a way to reach as deep as possible inside the human body in the least invasive way as possible.”

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Twilight Hue]

I can't imagine the massive ensuing fight with that thunderous tapeworm.

 

[Kenny]

Ew.
Ew.
Ew!
This snakelike robot slithers down your lungs and could spot cancer
Excerpted...
Researchers in the United Kingdom have developed an autonomous, snakelike robot designed to slither down human lungs into places that are difficult for medical professionals to reach. The tool could improve the detection and treatment of lung cancer and other pulmonary diseases.

In a medical paper released in the journal of Soft Robotics last week, scientists from the University of Leeds unveiled a new “magnetic tentacle robot,” which is composed of magnetic discs and is roughly 2 millimeters thick — about double the size of a ballpoint pen tip — and less than a-tenth-of-an-inch long.

In the future, the robot’s use could be expanded to help doctors better, and more thoroughly, investigate other organs, such as the human heart, kidney or pancreas, they said.

“It’s creepy,” Pietro Valdastri, the project’s lead researcher and chair of robotics and autonomous systems at the University of Leeds, said in an interview. “But my goal … is to find a way to reach as deep as possible inside the human body in the least invasive way as possible.”

I think when it sheds, it will be worth quite a bit of money. Make belts out of them?

 

[danieldemol]

I think when it sheds, it will be worth quite a bit of money. Make belts out of them?

2.54mm long belts?

 

[fantome profane]

roughly 2 millimeters thick — about double the size of a ballpoint pen tip — and less than a-tenth-of-an-inch long.

Strange that they give the thickness in metric and the length in imperial. Doesn’t matter but it just seems strange to me.

I think they should also tell us the it weighs less than 0.0000003 of a stone.

 

[fantome profane]

2.54mm long belts?

For super models.