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Robots Might Allow For Space Surgery
An anonymous reader writes "Robots might allow for delicate surgeries in space, reports the Washington Post." From the article: "The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case, can be slipped into small incisions and computer-controlled by surgeons in different locations. Some robots are equipped with cameras and lights and can send back images to surgeons. Others have surgical tools attached that can be controlled remotely ... Officials hope that next spring, NASA will teach astronauts to use the robots so that surgeries could one day be performed in space. Delays in communication because of the distance to space would mean surgeons on earth would have tell astronauts what commands to give the robots"
Are the creators of this technology saying that we shall at some point in future, have to send patients into space in order for them to have surgery? How expensive! To me, the whole project sounds ludicrous.
The minute you go under the anesthesia, it's over.
The tiny, wheeled robots, which are about 3 inches tall and as wide as a lipstick case,...
;-)
Oh come on, Slashdotters are supposed to know how big a lipstick case is?
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can be slipped into small incisions "I think you're bugged." Agent Smith would *love* this idea.
"Eddies," said Ford, "in the space-time continuum." "Ah," nodded Arthur, "is he? Is he?"
Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a robot driver!
Hear about the lagging space-based circumcision robot? It screwed up and got the sack.
"got the sack" Brit slang