This Unstoppable Robot Could Save Your Life

Imagine being burried inside a colapsed building, pitch black and feeling a giant tentacle touching you

The year is 2050. Your apartment building is on fire. A fire engine pulls up. The top of it unhinges and it releases six thousand hissing purple tentacles.

This would be huge for ecologists studying burrowing species. The current state of the art is a camera attached to the end of a fiber optic wire but it’s notoriously tricky to deal with hard turns branching passages or even uneven ground surfaces

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Kinda scary if I‘m in a collapsed building and an oversized noodle worm just comes by to say hi.

Imagine being in a burning collapsed building stuck under some concrete and a giant tenticle comes to save you

The demonstration of penetration into sand reminded me of a friend, back in the 90s, that was building a riverbank dock and party platform/deck. The riverbank and bottom were made of a hard, but saturated red clay. My friend clamped a small copper tubu to each of the pillars. The ends were pinched, creating a tiny jet nozzle that extended an inch beyond the pillar bottom, and bent slightly towards the center. When the tube was attached to a small pressure washer, the pillar was positioned where it was needed and the water jet softened the clay directly below the pillar, allowing the weight of the pillar to penetrate up to the 6' needed for securing it into the soil. This was at least 10X faster than driving the pillars, and the suction of the saturated clay held them tighter than a frogs butt. It was amazing. Each pole simply sank into the "mud" until the water was turned off. With enough pillars, the rest of the structure was a "piece of cake"... All accomplished in an afternoon by beer drinking hillbillies..!

For the intubation tubing, if the robot gives the trachea branch late it will push the trachea lid (epigglotis) shut or even damage it. The string arms you build was good, you could use it to direct the robot to the trachea. Here is another thought, the patient will have a lot of secretions that can fill up and decrease the oxygenation and the secretion needs to be aspirated. We send a second tube down the entubation tube to aspirate. The robot needs a lumen to pass an aspiration tube. Or maybe the robot can be a guide to send a classical intubation tube down from within.

Robots back then : Humanoid, rigid, and futuristic looking

The idea of being trapped in a building and just seeing hundreds of tentacles with little camera eyes on them extend in through windows is wild.

The level of professionalism and restraint to not compare it to phallic imagery is impressive. 😂

How well would this robot work underwater and or on the surface of water? And if temperatures got too high would it pop like a balloon? What would happen if part of the robot froze? I'd like to see more of this robot!

“This is a robot that can grow to 100s of times its size and it can’t be stopped”

Big Hero 6 bro.

I'm curious if you could use a good durable material on a more rudimentary use and use this as a drain cleaner.

There’s a very similar product in plumbing for collapsed drain lines. A hose is forced through the center of a pipe with hydraulic pressure. It’s used mostly for clay sewage pipes that are notorious for collapsing with age.

This holds a lot of promise for makers of balloon animals as well.

"Where did you get this idea?"

Similar concepts were investigated a couple of decades ago and called “topographic” because of their intrinsic conformation to the structure being intubated. They were considered as potentially improving such procedures as enteroscopy. A topographic colonoscope was actually developed , the “Aeroscope.” While it showed promised, I never saw production models.

this is absolutely genius, wow. i can't wait to see how much further they develop.