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Healthcare
Surgical ro ots help doctors in per orming 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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hat is Da inci
Space Exploration
ASA has made a num er o ro otic de ices to support or su stitute astronauts to per orm high ris
tasks. DARPA is a humanoid robot that can function like humans. Currently R1 and R2 are working
as o onaut. o onaut 2 or 2 as the first humanoid ro ot sent to space as a part o STS 1
mission. RASSOR (pronounced as “Razor”) is a lunar robot, Spidernaut is a robot constructed for
maintenance and repair pro ects in space.
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