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newscientist.com - 1/21/2009
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A BRAIN-boring robot that burrows its way through tissue in the same way a wasp digs through wood could make keyhole surgery safer. The female wood wasps of the Siricidae family use a needle-like ovipositor to deposit eggs inside pine trees. This has two dovetailed shafts, each covered in ...
technovelgy.com - 1/21/2009
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Let's hope DARPA doesn't get interested in these
brain-boring robots. Not that I'm paranoid. (SF in the...
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Surgical Robot Bores Into Brain Like Wasp
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Surgical Robot Bores Into Brain Like Wasp
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