They’ve ascended to the heavens on space shuttles, they have gone down to the depths of volcanoes and oceans. Now, Singapore researchers have stuck ‘em where the sun don’t shine. They’ve come up with a robotic solution to various kinds of incredibly traumatic surgery, reducing infection risk and speeding up the healing process:

According to Assistant Professor Louis Phee from the Nanyang Technological University (NTU), more can be done by “no-scar robotic surgery”, which involves accessing organs via natural orifices such as the mouth and anus.

An awesome solution with many, many, many, many possible benefits.

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