Surgical Robot Removes Calgary Woman's Brain Tumor 107
Raver32 points out an article in the Victoria Times Colonist about an interesting advance in robotic surgery: "Calgary doctors have made surgical history, using a robot to remove a brain tumor from a 21-year-old woman. Doctors used remote controls and an imaging screen, similar to a video game, to guide the two-armed robot through Paige Nickason's brain during the nine-hour surgery Monday. Surgical instruments acting as the hands of the robot — called NeuroArm — provided surgeons with the tools needed to successfully remove the egg-shaped tumor."
... It's a Waldo (Score:5, Interesting)
(I just noticed the Waldo story reference has something which prefigures Feynmann's "Plenty of Room at the Bottom" . Wonder if he got that idea from Heinlein?
Andy
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More to the point... (Score:5, Interesting)
This is great (Score:5, Interesting)
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Ancient Brain Surgery [scientificblogging.com]
I need trepanning like a hole in the head.
Re: waiting lists (Score:1, Interesting)