{"id":182802,"date":"2024-02-16T01:26:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/space-surgery-doctors-on-ground-operate-robot-on-iss-for-first-time"},"modified":"2024-02-16T01:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T07:26:32","slug":"space-surgery-doctors-on-ground-operate-robot-on-iss-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/space-surgery-doctors-on-ground-operate-robot-on-iss-for-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Space surgery: Doctors on ground operate robot on ISS for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-surgery-doctors-on-ground-operate-robot-on-iss-for-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remote surgery in orbit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit\u2014albeit on rubber bands.<\/p>\n<p>The experiment, deemed a \u201chuge success\u201d by the participants, represents a new step in the development of space surgery, which could become necessary to treat medical emergencies during multi-year manned voyages, such as to Mars.<\/p>\n<p>The technology could also be used to develop remote-control surgery techniques on Earth, to serve isolated areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remote surgery in orbit. Earth-bound surgeons remotely controlled a small robot aboard the International Space Station over the weekend, conducting the first-ever such surgery in orbit\u2014albeit on rubber bands. The experiment, deemed a \u201chuge success\u201d by the participants, represents a new step in the development of space surgery, which could become necessary to treat medical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}