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How would you feel about a robot performing major surgery on you?
2019 has seen a boom in the use of cutting edge robotic technology and there is more to come.
Evidence suggests robotic surgery can be less invasive and improve recovery time for patients.
That could be good news with ever growing demand on health services.
At the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, I watch an operation taking place with three robotic arms operating on a patient where a surgeon's hands would normally be.
The robotic arms are seeing, feeling and manipulating with incredible precision.
In this case, they are removing the patient's thymus gland from between the lungs.
The surgical robot takes this operation a step beyond traditional keyhole surgery.
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(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday December 13 2019, @09:41AM (1 child)
Bots are routinely assembled by little Chinese hands paid 2$/h and nobody bats an eye
A bot makes minor adjustments to a meatbag and everybody lose their minds.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @06:39PM
> Bots are routinely assembled...
No fair, you bots are made from interchangeable parts--tolerances, press fits, go/no-go gauges, all that good stuff worked out during the Industrial Revolution and then made mainstream by Henry Ford. Us meatbags are still in the pre-mass production era where every snowflake is a little different.