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Thursday, September 20, 2001
http://www.nandotimes.com/technology/story/85136p-1143872c.html Doctors control robotic surgery from across the Atlantic By LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service (September 19, 2001 1:53 p.m. EDT) - As if the past week hasn't shown how small the world has become, French surgeons announced Wednesday that they had conducted robotic surgery to remove the gall bladder of a woman in Strasbourg, France - while they were in New York City. Code named "Operation Lindbergh" after the first solo trans-Atlantic flight, which took 33 1/2 hours in 1927, the procedure was carried out Sept. 7 using a fiber-optic network that passed commands across the ocean to robot surgeons in about 155 milliseconds. A millisecond is one-thousandth of a second.... (ed. note: This has significant implications for online laboratories for science and engineering classes!)
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