Thursday, 16. January 2003
Topic: - on January 16, 2003 at 6:35:42 PM CET
World's first robot brain surgeon developed
A six-legged robot has been developed by Singapore experts and programmed to drill through the skull during surgery to remove deep-seated brain tumours in sharply reduced operating time.
Engineers at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) came up with the computer-controlled robot known as "Hexapod" in conjunction with surgeons at the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI).
... Comment
