Cutting surgical robots down to size

(Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard) Teleoperated surgical robots are becoming commonplace in operating rooms, but many are massive (sometimes taking up an entire room) and difficult to manipulate. A new collaboration between Harvard's Wyss Institute and Sony Corporation has created the mini-RCM, a surgical robot the size of a tennis ball that weighs as much as a penny, and performed significantly better   than manually operated tools in delicate mock-surgical procedures.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news