French surgeons used computerized robots developed by California-based Intuitive Surgical to perform six open heart surgeries. The technique involved the surgeon sitting at a console several yards away from the patient, viewing the heart via a 3-D camera inside the patient, and directing the robot to perform the surgery. (Investor's Business Daily 26 May 98)
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