NASA to send prototype robot surgeon into space
NASA is funding research to build an autonomous robot gripper theoretically capable of performing medical surgery, and which is to be launched to the International Space Station in 2024.
MIRA, which stands for Miniaturized In vivo Robotic Assistant, is made up of a long arm with two prongs that have what look like tweezers at each end. Last year, surgeons successfully used the device to conduct colon resections involving a single incision to a patient's navel.In operating theaters on Earth, MIRA is controlled by human surgeons in near-enough real-time from a console.
It's not ready for real medical procedures as yet, and the orbital experience will help develop the system, getting the machine closer to carrying out its own in-space procedures. Presumably it's infeasible for the robot to be controlled from Earth – especially if a mission is way out in deep space – hence the need for the equipment to perform movements by itself.."Any backlash or looseness in the joints will lead to inaccuracy in a zero-gravity environment.
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