"A good deal of work is being done to improve how existing surgical procedures are performed by making rigid tools flexible and steerable. [...] One of the teams at TU Delft developed an arthroscopy tool that has a snake-like tip capable of bending in surprising ways. The so-called MultiFlex is an example of the bio-inspired approach that is at the heart of many of the tools being built at TU Delft. It takes ideas from octopus tentacles that have a bunch of muscle rods near the perimeter that work together to flex the tentacle well enough to be featured in horror movies."