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reporter: it took six years for the neuroarm to come to life. this is the second generation robot that dr. sutherland hopes will soon be in hospitals around north america and the world. so this is a descendant of the original robot and it has two arms. and the two arms are like surgeons. they multi-articulate and they are quite precise at the tool tip. and this robot can perform microsurgery. reporter: the neuroarm is built to increase safety and accuracy. no matter how good a surgeon is, the human hand has a natural tremor. the robot filters out the tremor for a perfectly steady tool. the precision needed for space was a good match for surgery. in the brain, every tiny millimeter counts. by reducing the risk, dr. sutherland and neuroarm can operate on patients he might ....
Makes this so unique. as lee is being prepped, so is this machine. it s called the neuroarm. it s a brain surgery robot, inspired by the international space station. dr. sutherland and his team had the idea to bring an mri machine into the operating room on a track. it cut down on the time required to move a patient to the room with the mri in it. but the problem was even bringing the machine into the operating room still stopped down the surgery. to me that was a challenge, because that disrupts the rhythm of surgeons. surgeons get into a rhythm as they move through a procedure. so then from that, the idea was that we should build a rebougob that could access that space. so one evening we wrote a letter to mcdonald detwaller. ....