14 DAY TRIAL // A new video posted online a couple of days back shows a surgery robot operating on a wounded grape and stitching a bit of skin back in place.
The robot featured in this video is a Da Vinci surgery system. The grape, on the other hand, is a regular berry of the kind used to make wine. Nothing special about it.
The footage shows the Da Vinci surgery system using its robotic arms to arrange the detached bit of grape skin in its proper spot.
Next, the surgery system gets to work stitching the berry. When the procedure is completed, the grape looks as if it's just been picked from a vineyard.
Even cooler, the surgery system performs this intervention not out in the open, but inside a glass bottle. Pretty impressive, right?
Now, don't go thinking that the surgery robot pulled this stunt all by itself. Au contraire, it was a trained physician who controlled its arms the entire time.
Surgical robots like the one shown in this video are used by medical experts to perform minimally invasive surgeries and reach tumors growing in odd places.
While remotely operating the robots' arms, surgeons rely on a camera to keep tabs on what it is happening inside their patients' body and plan the next cut or stitch.
