[MURG] robotic hair transplant

[Keith Wiley]

I realize this is barely on topic, but the following URL...
http://www.keratin.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5357
...describes a robot specifically designed to manipulate the human scalp
and skull at high speed (and with better results than human-conducted
surgery).  Perhaps this is a step toward a robot that can not only perform
surgery on a single location in the skull (such as for blasting tumors)
but one that can actually access and manipulate the entire surface of the
skull and brain efficiently.

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Keith Wiley                                kwiley at cs.unm.edu
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"Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn his lesson,
that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to
aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy."
                                           --  Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland
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