Robot neurosurgeon gets GPS accuracy
October 12th, 2007
Just when you thought that GPS was meant to get you from point A to point B in the shortest time possible, along comes the MiniAture Robot for Surgical Applications (MARS) that has already received FDA approval for orthopedic and spinal surgery. It is now equipped with GPS accuracy for keyhole neurosurgery by Israeli scientists, allowing it to keyhole drilling and insertion of a needle or probe based on predefined entry point and target locations in a preoperative CT/MRI image. It would be nice to know that this will be more accurate than your ordinary GPS device though, as it is brains that are being operated on here. Man, I’ll never look at another GPS-enabled device the same way ever again.
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