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Brain Surgery Robot Running Linux

Posted by michael on from the brain-fondling dept.

hherb writes "Singapore has developed a robotic brain surgeon. The interesting bit: based on a Linux platform. Well, what else? Who in his right mind would like to have his brain fondled by a MS product?"

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  1. Heh by Lebannen · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anothe nicely misleading title... after reading the article, the robot is used to drill through the porous bone of the skull. This is no mean feat by itself, reducing a 6-hour drill to a 3-hour drill, but surgeons still have to feed the robot all information on blood vessels, nerves, and sensitive areas.

    That being said, it's still pretty impressive. And I thought dentists were bad enough...

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  2. Utility only by BuR4N · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The programmers can then map the access path, program the robotic arm to hold the drilling tool and begin the surgery. The program is written on a Linux platform."

    Looks like the "setup" program is written for some Linux distro , no actual surgery is done using a machine running Linux.

    I would neither have Bill or Linus software poking around in my head, neither OS is deterministic or suited for an operation like that.

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