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Healthcare


                 Surgical robots help doctors in performing surgery in healthcare field. They are also used
                 as prosthetic limbs. Some of the humanoids can be a good companion to the recovering

                 patients  with  serious  illness.  Da  Vinci  is  a  complete  surgical  system  which  performs
                 complex surgeries with great skills of heart, head, neck and other sensitive areas.

































                               Reboot


                    What is Da Vinci?











                          Space Exploration



                 NASA has made a number of robotic devices to support or substitute astronauts to perform
                 high risk tasks. DARPA is a humanoid robot that can function like humans. Currently R1
                 and R2 are working as Robonaut. Robonaut 2 or R2 was the first humanoid robot sent
                 to space as a part of STS-133 mission. RASSOR (pronounced as “Razor”) is a lunar robot,

                 Spidernaut is a robot constructed for maintenance and repair projects in space.








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