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.
![BrainBridge hopes to get a head start in the full body transplant business](https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/a1c888f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1264x754+0+0/resize/1264x754!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fc4%2F49%2F96780b9b4f2399be6f16e0e5faa8%2Fscreenshot-2024-05-23-at-11.05.17%20am.png)