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Monday March 28, 10:47
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American soldiers to be treated by robots in future
(by Helen Snow)
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The Pentagon has awarded $12 million in grants on Monday to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" project to use robots in battlefield surgery.
"The result will be a major step forward in saving lives on the battlefield," said Scott Seaton, executive director of SRI’s engineering and systems division.
SRI International is a noncommercial laboratory that often is in charge of Defense Department research.
SRI officials predict that the project needs at least ten years to appear on any battlefields.
"The main challenge is how can we get high-quality medical care onto the battlefield as close to the action and as close to the soldiers as possible," said John Bashkin, head of business development at SRI.
Still, some of the primary technology has already started being practiced in hospitals. However, the goal of the present $12-million grand is a modest project of implementation of robots into surgery operations. This approach is called "telesurgery" since its first introduction in 1980s.
This time, the "telesurgery" project is being funded by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). It is the only medical project of such kind the agency is funding, spokeswoman Jan Walker said. Still, NASA is also interested in the "telesurgery" concept.
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