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Surgery on beating heart thanks to robotic helping hand

EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Thu, 12/10/2009 - 23:00

(SAGE Publications UK) If you've been waiting for the day to arrive when computers actually start performing surgery, that moment might soon be upon us.

A French team has developed a computerized 3-D model that allows surgeons to use robotics to operate on a beating heart, according to a report in the International Journal of Robotics Research, published by SAGE.