Robotic Arm Performs Brain Surgery? Cool!

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A robotic surgeon based on military technology has performed its first brain operation in Canada. The neuroArm was developed as a collaborative effort by the University of Calgary and MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. (MDA), a Vancouver military contractor whose best known device is Canadarm used on the Space Shuttle.
The device removed a benign brain tumor from Paige Nickason, 21, who suffers from neurofibromatosis, which causes benign tumours to form on nerves. The procedure took about 9 hours.
The promise is that robotic surgeons like the neuroArm can be more accurate than a surgeon’s hands, which is vital in areas like brain surgery. MDA also hopes the spin-off will be profitable.
On a day when brain surgery is in the news it’s nice to know it’s getting better.

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A robotic surgeon based on military technology has performed its first brain operation in Canada. The neuroArm was developed as a collaborative effort by the University of Calgary and MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. (MDA), a Vancouver military contractor whose best known device is Canadarm used on the Space Shuttle.
The device removed a benign brain tumor from Paige Nickason, 21, who suffers from neurofibromatosis, which causes benign tumours to form on nerves. The procedure took about 9 hours.
The promise is that robotic surgeons like the neuroArm can be more accurate than a surgeon’s hands, which is vital in areas like brain surgery. MDA also hopes the spin-off will be profitable.
On a day when brain surgery is in the news it’s nice to know it’s getting better.

This may be looking too far forward into the future, but this development is actually good news to long-term space travel. You see, one of the problems man gud, that faced scientists and engineers, planning for a manned Mars trip (9 months), is the possibility of someone getting injured aboard the spacecraft. If the injury requires delicate operation, human surgeons might have to deal with conducting surgery in freefall (i.e. "zero-gravity"), which can be very dangerous. However, given the precision work of robots, if the patient is rendered totally immobile (strapped down to a platform), and a robot is programmed to work on an injury to micromillimeter-level precision, then the likelihood of saving the life of an injured crewmember is greater.

-RODION

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A very good development.

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good shot.