The robot will see you now: could computers take over medicine entirely?
by Tim Adams from on (#3VSA7)
They already perform remotely controlled operations - now robots look set to be the physicians of the future
Like all everyday miracles of technology, the longer you watch a robot perform surgery on a human being, the more it begins to look like an inevitable natural wonder.
Earlier this month I was in an operating theatre at University College Hospital in central London watching a 59-year-old man from Potters Bar having his cancerous prostate gland removed by the four dexterous metal arms of an American-made machine, in what is likely a glimpse of the future of most surgical procedures.
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