Surgery On Beating Heart Thanks To Robotic Helping Hand, Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics Study

EurekAlert! -- Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (Dec 11, 2009) – If you’ve been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us. A French team has developed a computerized 3D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart, according to a report in The International Journal of Robotics Research, published by SAGE.

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