| Telesurgery is mainly used as a form of minimally invasive surgery. In traditional surgery, the physical hand size has always been a limiting factor when it comes to delicate surgery in hard-to-reach places. Since the robot can theoretically be as small as is desired, it can enter through a small opening, navigate through the body and finally reach and operate in places that would otherwise be inaccessible without a large incision made specifically to facilitate entry. Recent experiments even involve the robot being inserted through a small puncture in the thigh and guided all the way to the brain through blood vessels as narrow as 1.5mm in diameter. |
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