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Heartlander is a robotic caterpillar that crawls across the surface of the heart to assist surgeons in heart procedures.
The HeartLander has been designed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The robot has been used to successfully fit pacemakers leads in pigs and insert dye into the heart.
Source: BBC News
Could this robot be used to stretcher casualties in remote locations?
Robert P Caruso, MD uses the DaVinci Robotic Surgery system to perform a Robot-Assisted Prostatectomy.
PS. If you like videos of medical procedures, check out the Medical Video Blog at NewMediaMedicine.com.
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