I think the craziest part about this is that the snake attaches itself to the outside of your beating heart, and then does it stuff. A kind of elegant, but also

I think the craziest part about this is that the snake attaches itself to the outside of your beating heart, and then does it stuff. A kind of elegant, but also creepy solution to operating on a beating heart. I remember reading about the Raven surgical robot (not a snake, or really a raven... but still a surgical robot) that had a module for compensating for the beating heart under development. Like, they would try to move the robot arms in sync with the heart to remove relative motion. NUTS!