improving robotic surgery with Haptics
by tushar Kesavadas
`hen I was in eighth grade, my father, a professor of mechanical engineering at SUNY Buffalo, took me to the Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) to see the da Vinci surgical robot in action. My father had been collaborating on a project with Dr. Khurshid Guru, a surgeon who uses the da Vinci robot, and when he heard that Dr. Guru was holding a training session for other surgeons, he asked if he could come to see the robot and if I could join him.
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