In a high-tech lab on Johns Hopkins University’s Homewood campus in Baltimore, engineers have been building a robot that may be able to stitch back together the broken vessels in your belly and at some point maybe your brain, no doctor needed.
The robot has a high-tech camera on one arm and a high-tech sewing machine on a second arm. It’s already reattached halves of a pig’s intestines.
Image: A team of mechanical engineers from Johns Hopkins University are developing a SMART robot (Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot) that can perform soft tissue surgeries such as intestinal reconnections. Left to right, looking at the robot: Jin Kang, professor of electrical and computer engineering; Justin Opfermann, Ph.D. student, Axel Krieger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering; Michael Kam, Ph.D.. student. (Barbara Haddock Taylor/Baltimore Sun)
