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Shrapnel

ROBOTICS

Robotic surgeon could remove shrapnel on battlefield

By Michael Mulcahy

00:28 June 22, 2009 PDT

Research team member A. J. Rogers with the shrapnel-finding surgical robot

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. Read More

 
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