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From the Ted Talk by Giada Gerboni: The incredible potential of flexible, soft robots

Unscramble the Blue Letters


Let's go back to the gruond. Here, you see the view from a growing robot developed by my colleagues in stfrnaod. You see the camera feixd on top. And this roobt is particular, because using air pressure, it grows from the tip, while the rest of the body stays in firm contact with the environment. And this is inspired by plants, not animals, which grows via the material in a similar manner so it can face a pretty lrage veatiry of situations.

But I'm a biomedical engineer, and perhaps the application I like the most is in the mdcieal field, and it's very difficult to imagine a closer interaction with the human body than actually going inside the body, for example, to porrefm a minimally ivsviane procedure. And here, robots can be very helpful with the surgeon, because they must enter the body using small holes and straight ienttmrsuns, and these instruments must interact with very delicate structures in a very uncertain environment, and this must be done safely. Also bringing the camera inside the body, so bgnnirig the eyes of the surgeon inside the surgical field can be very challenging if you use a rigid stick, like a clssiac endoscope.

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Let's go back to the ______. Here, you see the view from a growing robot developed by my colleagues in ________. You see the camera _____ on top. And this _____ is particular, because using air pressure, it grows from the tip, while the rest of the body stays in firm contact with the environment. And this is inspired by plants, not animals, which grows via the material in a similar manner so it can face a pretty _____ _______ of situations.

But I'm a biomedical engineer, and perhaps the application I like the most is in the _______ field, and it's very difficult to imagine a closer interaction with the human body than actually going inside the body, for example, to _______ a minimally ________ procedure. And here, robots can be very helpful with the surgeon, because they must enter the body using small holes and straight ___________, and these instruments must interact with very delicate structures in a very uncertain environment, and this must be done safely. Also bringing the camera inside the body, so ________ the eyes of the surgeon inside the surgical field can be very challenging if you use a rigid stick, like a _______ endoscope.

Solution


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  5. invasive
  6. large
  7. robot
  8. bringing
  9. perform
  10. instruments
  11. variety
  12. classic

Original Text


Let's go back to the ground. Here, you see the view from a growing robot developed by my colleagues in Stanford. You see the camera fixed on top. And this robot is particular, because using air pressure, it grows from the tip, while the rest of the body stays in firm contact with the environment. And this is inspired by plants, not animals, which grows via the material in a similar manner so it can face a pretty large variety of situations.

But I'm a biomedical engineer, and perhaps the application I like the most is in the medical field, and it's very difficult to imagine a closer interaction with the human body than actually going inside the body, for example, to perform a minimally invasive procedure. And here, robots can be very helpful with the surgeon, because they must enter the body using small holes and straight instruments, and these instruments must interact with very delicate structures in a very uncertain environment, and this must be done safely. Also bringing the camera inside the body, so bringing the eyes of the surgeon inside the surgical field can be very challenging if you use a rigid stick, like a classic endoscope.

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