Robot's gentle touch aids delicate cancer surgery
Friday, August 21, 2009 - 10:56
in Health & Medicine
Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC (August 21, 2009) -- New, delicate surgery techniques to hunt for tumours could benefit from a lighter touch -- but from a robot, rather than from a human hand. Canadian researchers have created a touchy-feely robot that detects tougher tumour tissue in half the time, and with 40% more accuracy than a human.