2024-02-13 19:08:44
A tiny robot has been installed in the International Space Station to carry out a surgical procedure in zero gravity, carried out by surgeons on Earth.
The operation was carried out on Saturday by the robot named spaceMIRA (Miniaturized In Vivo Robotic Assistant) on simulated tissues in the orbiting laboratory, CNN reported on Tuesday.
Everything was remotely controlled by surgeons in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Thus, part of the robot was inserted into the body with its two arms to imitate the movements of a human. The left arm is used to grasp and the right to cut, explained to the American media Shane Farritor, co-founder and director of technology at Virtual Incision, which created spaceMIRA.
“The surgeon [sur Terre] thus has smaller hands and eyes, which allows it to perform many interventions in a minimally invasive manner,” he stressed.
The robot weighs only 0.9 kilograms and is compact enough to be suitable for space travel. It was also sent into space on January 30 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Such surgery makes it possible to take a step forward in some people’s plans to carry out long-term manned trips into space.
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