[MURG] robotic hair transplant

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 11:07:41AM -0700, Keith Wiley wrote:

> surgery on a single location in the skull (such as for blasting tumors)
> but one that can actually access and manipulate the entire surface of the
> skull and brain efficiently.

If you haven't ever looked at a live brain, I recommend you obtain a fresh pig's
head from your local butcher (there might be local regulations preventing you
from that), and attempt to get at the brain (it will be difficult, so obtain
appropriate tools, gloves and eye protection, and sheet plastic to protect
the kitchen). Notice that I definitely suggest you do this in reality, not in gedanken.
There are lessons to be learned there you can't squeeze through a verbal
channel.

Once you've opened the cavity (without major injury to the organ), make a little
incision on the dura mater, use a hooked needle to pull if off exposing the
surface, and look at brain's consistency at room
temperature.

IMO: if it's not a chunk of cryogenic tissue glass the only technology fit to
go in there is advanced medical nanotechnology. Something macroscopic,
studded with a lot of submicron-sized cilia to image and support while manipulating.

Do you know how to build that? If you do, what's your time line for that
technology?

-- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a>
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