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Space surgeons: Medical Robotics experts help advance NASA's satellite surgery project
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December 7th, 2011
Johns Hopkins Gazette
Johns Hopkins engineers, recognized as experts in medical robotics, have turned their attention skyward to help NASA with a space dilemma: How can the agency fix valuable satellites that are breaking down or running out of fuel? Sending a human repair crew into space is costly, dangerous and sometimes not even possible for satellites in a distant orbit. One answer: Send robots to the rescue and give them a little long-distance human help. To move toward these goals, NASA provided a research grant to West Virginia University, which in turn picked Johns Hopkins as a partner because of the school’s expertise in medical robotics.:
