The Curious Technologist
Among the fields in which moving even a small distance in the wrong direction can lead to disaster: surgery and robotic operations. With recent innovations like the da Vinci Surgical System, the latter is being deployed more and more to improve accuracy in the operating room.
And now, surgeons are starting to get a bit of robotic help from above—way above. The Canadian Space Agency’s robotic Canadarm boom and manipulator has been used for decades to snatch satellites and move astronauts around during spacewalks. Some of that same technology is now being applied for surgeries on Earth.
