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fromBusiness Insider
3 weeks ago

For brain surgery patients, a robot could be the key to faster recovery

Dr. Homoud Aldahash performed the world's first remote robotic brain surgery, enabling more precise movements and faster patient recovery by mitigating surgeon tremors.
fromNature
3 months ago

These 'programmable' knots harness physics to make surgical stitches safer

Researchers at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, figured out how to precisely control a knot's geometry and friction so that they could 'program' it to open when tugged on with a given force. This allows a surgeon - or a robot - stitching up a wound to pull a suture closed with just the right amount of force, simply by tugging the free end of the knotted thread and stopping when the knot unfurls.
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