Robotic Telesurgery by Remote Surgeons 134
Roland Piquepaille writes "In a few years, telesurgery performed by multi-armed robots remotely controlled by real surgeons located hundreds or thousands of kilometers away will become commonplace. Today, Canadian doctors from the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery (CMAS) are developing the technology for NASA. Their goal is to build a portable robotic unit that would be used in space missions, war zones and remote areas within five years. So far, the experiments already done in Canada and for NASA are extremely encouraging. But read more for additional details and pictures of a real surgeon controlling such a robot."
Problems? (Score:3, Funny)
"Oh no! The connection's lagging doctor!"
"Reconfigure the upstream bandwidth, and re-route all traffic to the backup server!"
A new thing you don't want to hear from your doc: (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Problems? (Score:3, Funny)
Nurse: "Doctor the robo-surgeon seems to have crashed."
Doctor: "Look on the display it says, nothing for you to see? What's going on"
In bursts the network admin exclaiming: "The surgeon he's been... slashdotted!"
CounterStrike Surgeons (Score:5, Funny)
Doctor [Scalpel] Patient
Doctor: WTF LAG
Trouble (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Problems? (Score:1, Funny)
Personally.. (Score:3, Funny)
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What is it with Canadians (Score:2, Funny)
From the Western Redundancy Playhouse Theater... (Score:3, Funny)
h@ck3d (Score:3, Funny)
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