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Published online 27 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051024-11
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Robot surgeons scrub up
Future operations could be performed from the inside.
Meet the robots that can perform surgery from within your own body. Their creators hope that the remote-controlled surgeons are a step towards a time when traditional open surgery is a thing of the past.
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