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Head transplant, anyone?

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Published: 22 May 2024 › Updated: 22 May 2024Head transplant, anyone?

Head transplant, anyone?

It seems like there are people considering the possibility of giving people with physical problems below their neckline new bodies.

Two machines working side by side with precise motion will surgically detach a healthy head from an ailing body and put the head on another healthy body. The healthy body will come from a donor with serious head injury or brain death.

The robotics system will continually learn and use past 'experience' to figure out new ways of improving the procedure.

This will likely be a long term procedure, taking anywhere from months to years to complete because of the intricate procedures that allows the bodies to go through things like cooling, be put in a coma to prevent movement, therapy after the procedure, etc.

https://brainbridge.tech/

There doesn't seem to be a peer reviewed paper on this.

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