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World Service,20 Feb 2011,25 mins

Operation Robot

Global Business

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The revolution in the operating theatre is only just beginning, but robotic surgery could change the way we think about healthcare - and the way surgeons work. Peter Day looks at what surgeons are able to achieve with robots now and at the proto-types for healthcare in the future. He asks how significant these advances could be for health in Britain and for British business and hears from the robot pioneers: surgeons, engineers and business people.

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