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Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain's blood vessels
- yostrovs 7y agoIt's not exactly robotic. It's a flexible magnetically manipulatable wire. Robots require some kind of sensing and reacting loop.
- PostOnce 7y ago"Some college guys move coated wire with magnets" doesn't drum up admissions and donations and buff the reputation, but "MIT Engineers develop magnetic soft-continuum thread-like robot with lubricating hydrogel skin" does.
- fzeroracer 7y agoI'm not gonna lie. The idea of doctors steering a thin cable through my brain is one of nightmares. But the fact that they're able to do so and save lives is a remarkable feat. I can only hope that we can eventually make most strokes much less debilitating.
- tomcam 7y agoDoctors just inserted a less-thin cable through… well, my copy of most men’s favorite organ in order to get rid of a few kidney stones. I walked out under my own power with some super-duper Ibuprofen. After 5 days I was back to normal, no pain at all. I’m not going to lie, if I have a choice between invasive brain surgery and the thin cable, I’ll take the cable.
- biggio 7y agoYour experience sounds much better. I had a stuck 6mm kidney stone removed with laser under anaesthetic which after I had to walk around with a tube in my ureter for 6 weeks.
- Erlich_Bachman 7y ago>I'm not gonna lie. The idea of doctors steering a thin cable through my brain is one of nightmares. Not when the only alternative is open-brain surgery with drilling and sawing big openings in the skull.
- winrid 7y agoI had a friend who recently suffered a heat stroke and had a ruptured vein in his brain. When I heard the doctors closed off the leak without opening his head I was amazed.
- malux85 7y agoWow that is cool, how did they do it? Did they use a machine similar to that in the article?
- winrid 7y agoI think this was the mechanism: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/centers_clinics/aneurysm/treatment/aneurysm_endovascular_coiling.html https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/cente... They guide the wire by giving you a kind of "live" x-ray.
- justinclift 7y agoSounds like an interesting way to potentially deploy (nano) tech - through the hollow tube - to targeted brain locations. Maybe useful for future BMI development/integration.
- aussieguy1234 7y agoCan I upload by brain yet?