Would You Let Canadian Robots Operate On You?

And just as importantly, would you let experimental robot surgeons anywhere near your crotch?

That’s the important question researchers at McGill University answered with the first ever all-robot surgery. All right, so it wasn’t entirely automated. The da Vinci surgical robot beams high definition 3D images to a workstation, allowing the surgeons to operate with a degree of precision not possible with human hands. The da Vinci, assisted by a robot anesthesiologist named “McSleepy” (no, really), successfully removed some poor sucker’s prostate.

The idea is that the robots will serve as a tool for doctors, so they don’t have to worry about being hungover and having to remove somebody’s vital organs. And the robots are supposedly being kept on a tight leash. Still, cold comfort, especially when they invent the robot proctologist.

[ via Engadget ]