Bored surgical robot makes and flies tiny paper airplanes
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 5:55pm
Like most kids, back when I was in school I would occasionally make and throw a few paper airplanes to fight the boredom. Well if this video is anything to go by, it appears that surgical robots can get bored too,
Of course a surgical robot requires an operator, and it turns out that the paper plane folding exercise is really just Dr. James Porter's way of demonstrating the amazing dexterity of his Swedish made da Vinci robot. You don't really get a sense of scale until near the end, when you find out that the plane is actually just a little bigger than a penny.
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