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Robotic Surgery Taking the Industry by Storm

SingularityHub Staff
Aug 07, 2008
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Intuitive Surgical introduced its Da Vinci robotic surgical system to the world in 1999, converting surgeons into "super surgeons" by giving them eyes with 3D HD vision and digital zoom and giving them hands with ultra precision, motion scaling, and tremor reduction.  Take a look at this beauty:

Early adopters have been promoting the virtues of the Da Vinci for nearly a decade now, but only in the last year or so has the Da Vinci gained the critical mass to leap from fledgling technology to revolutionary game changer.

The Da Vinci robot is being massively adopted by hospitals across the nation as its virtues to the patient including faster recovery, less blood loss, less risk of infection, and less pain have become overwhelming. Below is a promotional video from Intuitive Surgical that explains this amazing game changing innovation in the field of human health and medicine:

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