Right now , the good Doogie Howser - bot around still requires a sawbones to in reality go through motions of surgery , making them suffer hand cramps and light perspiration , when they could be sipping lattes or curing Crab . Well , researchers at the Imperial College London are raise the Da Vinci surgical operation automaton so operating docs can control it with their center .
For now , the fresh software package tracks the surgeons ’ middle movements and builds a 3D single-valued function of the tissue paper they ’re eyeballin ’ . That image is stabilized and light for the doc to work with , even though the robot ’s instrument are in fact moving along with whatever organ they ’re dally around inside .
The other cyber - sawbones craziness they ’re fix up is a virtual overlay that makes tissue paper see - through : It models what ’s underneath it , like a neoplasm , and gives the doctor high - Ra Ghost in the Shell vision . So , how long before you swallow nanobot pills that ’ll patch up your heart automatically and then you poop ’em out ? [ The Guardian ]
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