How do machines like MRI that use large freely rotating pieces with sensors and tools attached deliver power and send/recieve data, I don’t think they would have miles of cables on a spool thats ready to be wound back and forth?

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How do machines like MRI that use large freely rotating pieces with sensors and tools attached deliver power and send/recieve data, I don’t think they would have miles of cables on a spool thats ready to be wound back and forth?

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Surprisingly not much different than a steering wheel in your car. electricity and data can move from one piece of metal to another even when they are moving with respect to each other.

edit: I’m wrong that’s not how they work now

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