This Truly is Rocket Surgery

By combining brain surgery and rocket science, Canadian researchers have developed a robot that has such a delicate touch that it can perform brain operations. The neuroArm allows an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging machine) to create a 3-D touch screen picture of even the smallest of nerves and can then be moved in any direction. The neurosurgeon utilizes handles which allow her/him to feel pressure and texture.

The $24 million robot was created by the same team that built CanadArm, which is used in NASA space shuttles. The neuroArm will be making its debut this summer at Calgary’s Foothills Hospital, where the University of Calgary medical school’s research facility is housed. We certainly wouldn’t want to be its first guinea pig, but maybe we can just view the operation from a distance.

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