- A fist-sized Robot surgeon has been developed by researchers that will be incised in the belly button to perform surgery or removal of an ailing appendix, cut pieces from a diseased colon or perforate a gastric ulcer on astronauts in deep space.
- It will perform exercises like manipulating rubber bands and other inanimate objects to demonstrate its dexterity.
- On long deep-space missions robots will accompany future astronauts in order to treat any person experiencing physical trauma.
- Virtual Incision are working on designing Medical tools carried in space capsules, which needs to be
- light in weight, and
- capable of handling different situations.
- The latest robot with a small video camera on its head is loaded with two arms to grab tools, cauterize and suture tissue (weighs just about 0.49 kg).
- A human surgeon will control the robot and operate it using joysticks. Prototypes have tested procedures in pigs,and now will work on human cadavers and then test the technology in a living human on Earth.
- This technology has, however, some disadvantages in space:
- communication signals will delay in spaceship because of the greater distance, and
- can be catastrophic if we loose signal or run out of contact.
- In order to avoid this problem Virtual Incision is training astronauts to perform procedures on each other.
Exams Perspective:
- Virtual Incision
- Robot
- Surgery in Space