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Tiny robot’s successful first surgery could have huge implications for space travel


A tiny robot has completed its first surgery in zero gravity on the International Space Station, operated by surgeons approximately 250 miles away.

“It gives smaller hands and eyes to the surgeon (on Earth) and allows them to perform a lot of procedures minimally invasively,” said Shane Farritor, cofounder and chief technology officer at Virtual Incision, the startup that created spaceMIRA. Freelance Journalist Rachael Davies has spent six years reporting on tech and entertainment, writing for publications like the Evening Standard, Huffington Post, Dazed, and more. As well as writing, she also has experience in editing as the UK Editor of The Mary Sue, as well as speaking on the important of SEO in journalism at the Student Press Association National Conference.

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