We have a video that shows a da Vinci "tele-surgery" robotic surgical system creating an origami crane that is actually smaller than a penny.
The video is pretty amazing considering the size of the paper being folded and the sizes of the folds needed. It is interesting to note how the scale of the process changes when viewing it up close.
I can't say that all of my fears about having a virtual presence doctor doing operations have been erased, but as long as they have a battery backup, use a great connection backbone, and do not have the system running on Windows I might consider it as an option.
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