Surgical robot
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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.
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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.
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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.