Sunday, October 30, 2005

Tiny robots revolutionise surgery

Small robots designed by University of Nebraska researchers may allow doctors on Earth to help perform surgery on patients in space.

Less than 8cm tall, these tiny-wheeled robots — slipped into the abdomen and controlled by surgeons hundreds of kilometres away — are in the pipeline at the University of Nebraska Medical Centre and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 01, 2005 6:01 AM

    Technology is so advanced! I can't imagine what will happen in nest 5 years.

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  2. dathanaNovember 01, 2005 7:07 AM

    Yeah... but some people guessed What
    will happen in next 10 years?!

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  3. AnonymousNovember 02, 2005 2:13 PM

    A really interesting post, Thx!

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