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Thursday October 11, 2007
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 If I'm ever under the knife, I hope that I'm so soundly anesthetized that I have no clue what the surgeon is doing to me. Still, the idea of the doctor not even being in the same room while he's operating on my vunerable body -even if I am out like a light-- does give me pause. I guess Korean patients do not share the same concern.
According to the English-language South Korean Digital Chosuniblo newspaper, researchers this week proudly unveiled the country's first surgical robot that can be remote controlled over the Internet. The two-armed automaton is designed to compete with the U.S.-built daVinci robot surgeon, though that robot doesn't perform surgery over the Internet.
The multi-million dollar Korean doctor bot has yet to slice and dice anyone remotely (commercialization's about three years away), but the researchers were able to demonstrate the fine level of control doctors will have when they begin to use the Kyung Hee SR1. The test subject? A bunch of pig intestines. Yuck.
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