University of Toronto Magazine May 3, 2021 How a slender, snake-like device could give doctors new ways to save lives University of Toronto Magazine May 3, 2021 Associate Professor Jessica Burgner-Kahrs, the director of the Continuum Robotics Lab at U of T Mississauga, and her team are building very slender, flexible and extensible robots, a few millimetres in diameter, for use in surgery and industry.