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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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            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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