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Video: Advances in robotics make new kinds of surgery possible

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(Image: RIKEN Bio-Mimetic Control Research Center)

Advances in robotics are pushing the limits of what surgeons can achieve, whether in the form of worm-inspired capsules to crawl through your gut, or systems swallowed in pieces that assemble themselves inside the body.

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