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Telerobotic Surgery: Transcending Barriers

Fig. 2: Necessary elements of a telerobotic surgery team

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being carried on. The world’s first human operation be improved in the foreseeable future. Although robot-
was a cyst removed from a patient’s arm, on board the assisted remote telesurgery is feasible, more prospective
European Space Agency’s Airbus A-300 Zero-G aircraft. randomized trials evaluating efficacy and safety must
The plane performed 25 parabolic curves, providing be undertaken to revolutionize and change health care
20 to 25 s of weightlessness every time. NASA carried delivery and the field of surgery.
out its first zero-gravity robotic surgery experiment in
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