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‘Can’t be inaccurate’: how 2 tiny robot arms could halve digestive cancer surgery time

‘Can’t be inaccurate’: how 2 tiny robot arms could halve digestive cancer surgery time

‘Can’t be inaccurate’: how 2 tiny robot arms could halve digestive cancer surgery time

In the final instalment of a four-part Health Matters wellness series on frontier medicine in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines a dual-arm surgical robot that could remove gastrointestinal tumours in about half the usual time, and the hurdles between its first human trials and wider patient access. Ho Man-wai underwent a colonoscopy in late August, during which doctors identified three polyps…

www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3373668/cant-be-inaccurate-how-two-tiny-robot-arms-could-halve-digestive-cancer-surgery-time

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