The Miniaturized In-vivo Robotic Assistant (MIRA) is getting ready to fly to the ISS and evaluate if robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) will work in space.
Plastic surgeons have used a robotic device to surgically treat lymphedema in a patient. This is the world's first super-microsurgical intervention with '"robot hands."
Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.
Surgeons at John Radcliffe hospital have performed eye-surgery using a small robot operated by joystick. The procedure is the first of its kind.
The first robotically assisted hip replacement operation in Australia is due to be performed today on a patient in Brisbane.
