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" The grape was in bad condition: split down the middle, shiny innards exposed, a stick jammed through its midsection. But after just a minute and a half of deft suturing performed by robot arms with tiny two-fingered hands, it looked (almost) well again. Those tiny arms and hands belong to a da Vinci Surgical System, a robot controlled by surgeons and used in lieu of traditional tools. A robot is not susceptible to the shaky hands that might symie a surgeon, the company says, and the arms are more flexible than human hands and arms, allowing them to fit through smaller incisions. In the video, a surgeon remotely moves the arms to sew on the grape&amp;#039;s missing flap of skin. When that&amp;#039;s finished, an Edward Scissorhands-type hand swoops and slices the thread. Then, a disclaimer: &amp;quot;Serious complications may occur in any surgery, including da Vinci Surgery, up to and including death.&amp;quot; Those complications\u2014including death\u2014have already occurred during robot-assisted surgery, including one death after a seemingly botched hysterectomy. Intuitive Surgical, the company that makes the da Vinci, has been warned by the FDA to be more forthcoming about surgeries gone wrong. But it&amp;#039;s tough to compare the robotic surgery mortality rate to the overall post-operative mortality rate (1.32 percent) because of both underreporting and the limited types of surgeries that are performed by systems like the da Da Vinci.      Source: Motherboard "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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