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MIT Researchers Designed this Robotic Worm to Burrow Into Human Brains
Gizmodo ^
| August 28, 2019
| Andrew Liszewski
Posted on 08/29/2019 7:04:28 AM PDT by C19fan
Robotics engineers at MIT have built a threadlike robot worm that can be magnetically steered to deftly navigate the extremely narrow and winding arterial pathways of the human brain. One day it could be used to quickly clear blockages and clots that contribute to strokes and aneurysms, while at the same time making the current state of robotic evolution even more unsettling.
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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: ai; brain; mit; robots
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All these developments will be weaponized. There will come a point that if someone wants you dead you will be dead just a matter of which AI/robot will do the dirty work.
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:04:29 AM PDT
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Night Gallery did this in the 60's...........😲
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:06:51 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: C19fan
Khan did it better
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:10:17 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: C19fan
Its a tool. Every tool can be misused. I am intrigued because at one point in my career I thought maybe I wanted to be an Interventional Neurosurgeon. Most of the people who trained in Interventional Neuroradiology at the time did not practice because when they found out the malpractice was the same as a neurosurgeon. I knew several of the guys who trained them and they were discussing just training neurosurgeons to do what they did instead of radiologists since neurosurgeons were already paying those malpractice rates. I spent many hours watching, reading, and learning. Fact is it is very difficult to navigate those catheters through the many branches many of which are quite angled. This could be a major breakthrough, using magnets to steer the catheters.
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:11:21 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
To: C19fan
Was this research sponsored by the DoD?
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:11:24 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
(When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
To: C19fan
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:13:20 AM PDT
by
stylin19a
(2016 - Best.Election.Of.All.Times.Ever.In.The.History.Of.Ever)
To: C19fan
I wholeheartedly support this development. And not just because that is what the brain worms want me to say!
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:21:28 AM PDT
by
Boogieman
To: Boogieman
Most men have a worm with a brain of its own.
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:24:50 AM PDT
by
Cooter
(Radicals always try to force crises because in a crisis, everyone must choose sides. - J. Goldberg)
To: C19fan
Is it Safe?
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:31:49 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: C19fan
Still not as effective as that Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give It Away” song...
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:39:26 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: C19fan
I’m waiting for nano-robots that can chew up plaque in hardened arteries, arms, legs, heart, etc.
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:54:23 AM PDT
by
FroggyTheGremlim
( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
To: Red Badger
The Matrix, total recall, etc.
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:56:04 AM PDT
by
headstamp 2
(There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
To: headstamp 2
The Nazis were working on a similar tack as well...................😬
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posted on
08/29/2019 7:59:17 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
To: Red Badger
As long as it doesn’t lay eggs in your brain...
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posted on
08/29/2019 8:02:10 AM PDT
by
moovova
To: C19fan
The Democrats don’t have to worry about this as the basic requirement is to have a brain in the first place.
To: C19fan
To: neverevergiveup
To: antidemoncrat
My initial response was similar. I was going to
pose a question about whether or not Democrats get a $
discount on the procedure. Your post is good enough
for that purpose.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:12:38 AM PDT
by
Sivad
(Trump is guilty of obstruction of injustice....)
To: Red Badger
Yes! They are called earwigs.
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posted on
08/29/2019 9:13:20 AM PDT
by
Cowboy Bob
("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
To: C19fan; Chode; Squantos; All
Or they will just park the thing and have it coil up to block the blood flow like a Stroke until it kills you and then uncoil it to drive it home till they remove it from your Body. No DNA, no Drugs, no Poisons just DEAD.
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posted on
08/29/2019 2:15:36 PM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!A fraud,a hypocrite,a liar. I'm practically a member of Congress)
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