While writing Book 2, I needed a mobile robot body for my AI to reside in while seeing patients before surgery. Luckily I knew of several existing systems and some new research in this area. I combined the tech from the InTouch telepresence robot, which is used in hundreds fo hospitals, with some research on 3D image projection into a “head sphere” that is going on at UCF in the lab of Dr. Greg Welch. Right now, the head-thing is kind of gimmicky, but I figure by 2051, it will be perfected and awesome. So together those form the “Teleconsult” robot that projects the face of an awesomely handsome surgeon.
Telesurgery Fiction is Now Fact
In a groundbreaking medical milestone, Dr. Vip Patel, founder and medical director of the Global Robotics Institute at AdventHealth Celebration, successfully performed a robotic prostatectomy on a patient located in Angola, Africa — while operating from the Nicholson...
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