Robot makes medical history
‘Gliding into the operating room for the first time to assist a surgeon, Penelope wasn’t nervous. Unlike other novice medical assistants scrubbing in, “she” felt nothing at all. That’s because Penelope is a robot, a machine that recently made medical history by becoming the first to act as an independent surgical aide during an operation.
During a June procedure at New York-Presbyterian Hospital to remove a benign tumor from a patient’s forearm, Penelope responded to voice commands from a surgeon, handing over clamps, forceps and other instruments with her magnetized mechanical arm. Watching with digital cameras, the robot retrieved the instruments when the surgeon placed them down.’
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