Robots surgeons are rapidly being accepted in the operating theatre.
neuroArm has been used to remove a tumour from a young woman's brain under the supervision of Garnette Sutherland, University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine. The key hole precision is so small it is less invasive and accelerates the time for recovery.
There are more than 800 da Vinci robots from Intuitive Surgical, a Californian company, being used in hospitals around the world for inserting heart valves and cutting out cancers.
MIRO which is a robotic-surgery system is being developed by Germany's DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and could well operate directly on a beating heart.
Maybe some of robotic capability will be upgraded to the robotic nurses designed to support patients at home (refer to blog reference AI 4).
