Surgery’s Past, Present and Robotic Future

June 19, 2009 by Geeks are Sexy | 1 comment

In the following video presentation, surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating — but not for the squeamish.

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Comment by blargh
2009-06-21 16:29:19

It was nice until she got all preachy.

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