The Most Cringe-Inducing Surgical Robots from IEEE's Intelligent Robots Conference

We're still sifting through the more than 1,200 presentations at IROS 2017, IEEE's massive intelligent robots conference held last month in Vancouver. This week we found some terrifying gems: surgical robots that snake up the nose, puncture the breast, and suction intestinal tissue with motions so jarring they will make any patient glad (or longing) to be passed out during the procedure. We previously highlighted 20 of our favorite videos from the conference. Now, with Halloween approaching, we give you: the five most gruesome (maniacal laugh). Sadistically named the "Stormram," this robot punctures the breast in one slow, ominous motion, to extract a tissue sample.