Fully robotic surgery may be a couple of decades away. But one thing could speed it up: billionaire engineer Elon Musk’s very public mission to Mars.
Which is kind of appropriate, because so — at this point — is a crewed mission to Mars that will see real live humans step on a planet other than Earth for the first time ever.
an emergency appendectomy on himself in 1961 to emergency mid-winter rescues, there’s a long history of dicy medical procedures at the South Pole.Not only is robotic surgery potentially more precise, faster, and less prone to human error, it could open up treatment for people who have no good — or affordable — options today.
“If you’re at a higher socioeconomic status you go to the specialist, and if you’re lower socioeconomic status then you go to the doctors that have less experience, in the same healthcare system,” says Wolf. “And so that is the type of thing that even in the United States ... we’re tackling, and I think there’s tremendous promise in a platform like these surgical robot platforms that we’re working towards.
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