THE ROBOT SURGEON WILL SEE YOU NOW
Nov 05, 2021
3 minutes
BY NASIFA SULAIMAN
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CORRIE HANSEN
IMAGINE it: you’re wheeled into the operating theatre for surgery and discover that it won’t be a surgeon who’ll wield the scalpel but rather a huge robot with four arms.
Sounds like the stuff of science fiction, yet this is exactly what’s on the cards at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town.
Other hospitals around the world have been using robots to perform surgery for
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