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April 24, 2007

Lunar Med Tech

Imagine a future lunar explorer falls into a crater and breaks a leg (but not the spacesuit), colleagues quickly transport her back to the habitat where a prefab modular medical bay complete with a robot surgeon is standing by (Longview Daily News - NASA to test robot surgeon):

All the portable parts of this device weigh about 50 pounds and can be transported and reconstructed by non-engineers at remote sites. Robot surgeons currently being used in hospitals weigh several thousand pounds, are not portable and can't be easily broken down and reconstructed.

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