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The Sci-Fi Future of Surgery The Sci-Fi Future of Surgery
Friday, October 02, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
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Advances in robotics are pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, whether in the form of worm-inspired capsules to crawl through your gut, or systems swallowed in pieces that assemble themselves inside the body. Explore the medical robots such as the Creeping Camera Capsule that is designed to creep along inside a patient's digestive tract using springy "legs", the robot carries a camera and could provide an alternative to traditional endoscopy. (Source: New Scientist)
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