Robot surgeon developed by China performs knee replacement surgery on 73-year-old man. The operation was the first commercial use of a Chinese medical robot during human surgery, Xinhua reports..

The operation was performed under the supervision of orthopedic surgeons.. A robot performed a knee replacement on a patient who had been suffering from knee pain for over 10 years.. He was diagnosed with terminal osteoarthritis of the knee..

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Zhou Zongke, a professor of orthopedics at Sichuan University West China Hospital, said doctors entered the patient's CT scan data into the simulation computer and rehearsed surgical procedures on the computer before operating with the robot..

“The advantage of robotic surgery is that it is intelligent and highly accurate in the number, angle and thickness of the incision,” he noted..

Previously, scientists from the Nebraska Innovation Campus, which operates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, have developed a miniature surgical robot that can work in space.. It was named Miniaturized In-vivo Robotic Assistant, MIRA for short..