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Surgical Robot Readied for Space Station Test

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Tom Patton
Aug 05, 2022
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NASA recently awarded the University of Nebraska-Lincoln $100,000 through the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) to ready a surgical robot for a 2024 test mission aboard the International Space Station.

“The astronaut flips a switch, the process starts and the robot does its work by itself. Two hours later, the astronaut switc…

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