Robotic surgeon could remove shrapnel on battlefield
Research team member A. J. Rogers with the shrapnel-finding surgical robot
Article Summary
Bioengineers at Duke Univesity in North Carolina have developed a laboratory prototype of a robot that can locate and surgically extract shrapnel pieces from flesh without any kind of human supervision. Using 3-D ultrasound imaging as “eyes”, the tabletop robot was able to precisely locate tiny shards of metal and then successfully guide a needle to their exact location.
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- November 26, 2009 @ 12:49 UTC