Surgical robot

A new tennis-ball-sized machine developed in a Harvard-Sony collaboration could open up some interesting new pathways in the field of robot-assisted surgery, with the ability to handle delicate tasks on a microscopic scale.

A delicate procedure called supermicrosurgery requires a high-level of expertise by surgeons, but they may soon have a new robotic tool at their disposal called Musa, which has performed its first round of procedures with great success.

Be it fear of striking nerves, major veins or arteries, doctors performing cranial surgery must take great care over many hours. But a new drilling robot built at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) could help lighten the load.