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Small robot surgeon designed to work inside astronauts’ bodies

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Tiny medical robots capable of operating inside an astronaut’s body could someday provide emergency surgery in space without the mess. A fist-sized robot is scheduled for its first zero-gravity test in the next several months—one small step toward enabling robotic medical attention for humans stuck on deep-space missions lasting for months.
via IEEE Spectrum

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