Article: Robotic surgery

The cardiac surgeon wipes his brow, squirts a couple of eye drops, turns off his computer and throws the switch on his robot -- another bypass surgery is complete. Within four hours the patient will be visiting with friends and relatives in the waiting room.

Robotic assisted surgery is a "here and now" leading-edge technology that should realize widespread deployment in the foreseeable future. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently approved computer-controlled robotic surgery for gall bladder, abdominal, prostate, colorectal and esophageal procedures representing 3.5 million surgical incidents per year. The MIT

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