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Canadian robot melds brain surgery, rocket science (2007)
- neurotech1 8y agoThe recent news of Simone Giertz[0] (Queen of something robots) diagnosed with a brain tumor[1] made me wonder about neurosurgical robots. neuroArm[2] is litterally a scaled down Canadarm[3] used on the space shuttle and now ISS. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Giertz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Giertz [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16959754 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16959754 [2] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits/neuro_Arm.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/benefits... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroArm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroArm