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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.
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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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