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Live Webcast April 24: Robot Stabs Human (For Good, Not Evil)

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 24 of April , 2008 at 12:17 am

Later today, Halifax Health will be webcasting a live robot-assisted gynecologic oncology surgery. The robot assisting (or actually performing the surgery) will be (surprise surprise) a da Vinci surgical system. Here’s the scoop, kind of:

Watch it online here, starting at 7pm EST.

[ Halifax Health ] VIA [ Communist Robot ]

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Comment by quantum_flux

Made Wednesday, 20 of October , 2010 at 2:09 am

I think robotic surgeries are perhaps less precise due to a lack of depth perception on the monitor screen. However, perhaps 3d goggles could be incorporated someday.

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