Robot surgeon uses frighteningly large needle to remove shrapnel, your resistance
June 23rd, 2009
Developed by a team at Duke University, the bot uses ultrasound to identify areas of density in human flesh, then starts probing them with a rather painfully large looking needle. It could be used to locate and extract bits of shrapnel from stricken GIs on the battlefield, but that same tech might also be deployed to pierce women’s breasts and men’s prostates — ostensibly to treat cancers of those respective regions, but we can think of more nefarious reasons. The bot doesn’t have a name, but once it and its kind take over, neither will you.