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Robotic Telesurgery by Remote Surgeons
Roland Piquepaille writes "In a few years, telesurgery performed by multi-armed robots remotely controlled by real surgeons located hundreds or thousands of kilometers away will become commonplace. Today, Canadian doctors from the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) are developing the technology for NASA. Their goal is to build a portable robotic unit that would be used in space missions, war zones and remote areas within five years. So far, the experiments already done in Canada and for NASA are extremely encouraging. But read more for additional details and pictures of a real surgeon controlling such a robot."
Please don't use that "word". It's worse than "nukyular." At least nukular has no inherent meaning, whereas "irregardless" implies a double negative meaning: "without lack of regard."
It's as if abunch of idiots got together and decided they would use the word "unpurple" to mean purple. I want my language to make intuitive sense, please stop making it meaninless.
The proper word for this context is "regardless". You could also have gotten away with "...irrespective to how much..."
...because "hacker" sounds way sexier than "code drone."