Word: robodoc
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...ROBOTS HAVE BEEN USED TO LOCATE hard-to-find tumors and guide a surgeon's scalpel but have never actually performed surgery on people -- at least not in the U.S. Now that line has been crossed. At Sacramento's Sutter General Hospital, a 90-kg (200 lbs.) machine called Robodoc has operated on its first human patient: a 64-year-old man with...
...role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
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