This past September SRI Internation and the University of Cincinnati held a series of tests that put a robotic surgeon against a human doctor in zero degree atmosphere. The purpose: To measure how good the robotic surgeon would be. The goal of this robotic surgeon is to be able to treat astronauts on Mars. This robot would be made to be small enough to fly on a space craft to Mars and would be able to perform life saving efforts. By having these robots on Mars, people on earth would be able to help save lives on a planet than is thousands of miles away. This would be a very interesting tool to have both in Space and on Earth and SRI is hoping for Pentagon approve to start field testing by 2009.
Link: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/robotics/4230099.html
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