Robot surgery through the umbilical cord patient

The tiny robots, capable of working inside the astronaut's body, could someday help with emergency surgery to save lives in space. Such a robot, sized as a fist, enters the patient's body through the navel, is expected to be tested in a weightless environment in the coming months.

The compact robot robot is a product of Virtual Incision and researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. It is designed to slide into the patient's body through a small incision in the navel, and then influx the patient's abdominal cavity with an inert gas to create an active space.

The tiny surgical robot enters the human body through a small incision in the navel. (Image: Alamy)

The robotic arms are equipped with a number of tools, which help them to remove stomach ulcers, burn and stitch wounds, or perform emergency resection surgery.

The robot controller will control it using two Phantom Omni sensors that provide feedback, a monitor and a foot pedal. Both the surgical robot and the operator will have the opportunity to demonstrate human-machine coordination in a test flight simulator of a weightless environment.

Emergency situations requiring the assistance of surgical robots are thought to be rare. However, a representative of NASA's Space Agency (NASA) noted that such medical situations have occurred in distant locations, during Arctic or Antarctic expeditions, par of the military submarine.

That suggests that other astronauts and explorers could benefit from this technology in the future, when locked in distant lunar or Mars bases. This technology, therefore, will be useful for NASA's ambitious mission of exploring and conquering the universe.