Kopftransplantationen durch Roboter sind innerhalb des Jahrzehnts geplant | BrainBridge plant den Einsatz von Hochgeschwindigkeitsrobotersystemen, um den Zustand des Gehirns zu erhalten, während ein Kopf auf einen kompatiblen Spenderkörper transplantiert wird.

From the article: In what sounds more like the opening scene from a B-grade sci-fi/horror flick, head transplant operations performed entirely by robotic surgeons could be coming to a hospital near you within a decade, if startup BrainBridge is to be believed.

It’s the brainchild – pun very much intended – of Hashem Al-Ghaili, the Berlin-based molecular biologist turned film-maker, producer, author and science communicator who you might remember from 2022 when he proposed a futuristic, rather dystopian artificial-womb baby-making factory called EctoLife.

His latest venture, BrainBridge, plans to use high-speed robotic systems to preserve brain condition while a head is transplanted onto a compatible donor body. (Doesn’t then make this a body transplant? We guess there are a few more pertinent questions to ponder here first…)

In a move that makes Neuralink seem like a scalp massage, Al-Ghaili wants to do whole head and face operations to give people with severe disability a new lease on life. The surgery would be driven by AI algorithms directing the many robotic arms to remove the head and attach it to the new torso, reconnecting the spinal cord, nerves and blood vessels. And proprietary chemical adhesive and polyethylene glycol would be used to reconnect severed neurons.

„I’m thrilled to announce BrainBridge, the world’s first concept for a head transplant system, which integrates advanced robotics and artificial intelligence to execute complete head and face transplantation procedures,“ Al-Ghaili announced on (where else but) social media. „This state-of-the-art system offers new hope to patients suffering from untreatable conditions such as stage-4 cancer, paralysis, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.“