Medical manipulator

Abstract

A medical manipulator (10), comprising a plurality of manipulator formed bodies (14) to (18) longitudinally connected to each other so as be displaced relative to each other. The manipulator formed bodies (14) to (18) further comprise bases (20) and balloon bodies (21) installed on the bases (20) and providing pressing forces to structures in a living body. The balloon bodies (21) further comprise spaces (48) capable of storing normal saline solution supplied from a device body (12), and installed so that the pressing forces can be controlled by controlling internal pressures in the spaces (48). The manipulator (10) is so formed as to be autonomously moved forward in the living body by the control of the pressing force while the manipulator formed bodies (14) to (18) are displaced relative to each other by a reaction from the structures in the living body.

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