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Insert scalpel into human

Robotic Surgeons? I didn't sign up for this. Canada healthcare

A class of second-year UBC physics students opted for robots instead of tweezers to play a life-sized game of Operation that counts as their final exam.

The undergrads spent the past six weeks building autonomous Doctor-Bots, equipped with an onboard microprocessor as powerful as a desktop computer 20 years ago, to lift fake organs out of cavities in a model without touching its edges.

 

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