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Humanoid Robots Scrubbing in on Surgery

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Robots first assisted in surgery all the way back in 1985!

A PUMA 560 industrial robot performed a neurosurgical biopsy at Memorial Medical Center — nearly 40 years before today's humanoid robots began scrubbing into operating rooms.

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