Yes, I’m just as confused and alarmed as you are.
They did surgery on a grape. They LITERALLY did surgery on a grape. I wish this was fake, but I had to write SOMETHING.
The “performance” was a demonstration of some advanced medical tech. According to www.thedailydot.com, “The da Vinci Single-Site is a robotic surgical system used by hospitals around the world to perform delicate, minimally invasive surgical operations—like on, say, a piece of fruit—with teeny, tiny mechanical claws. The da Vinci itself isn’t exactly a “robot” however, as the system is controlled by a surgeon operating from a console.”
This is basically a VR video game, and it’s actually pretty adavanced. The things this could do could advance a combined world of medicine and technology.
Developed in 2000, the “claw” has helped doctor with performing hundreds of surgeries, like hysterectomies.
So how’d it blow up? A YouTube video of the surgery was posted in 2010, and the right people found it. The timeliness of this is incredible!
Honestly, this whole “they did surgery on a grape” meme explosion has been hilarious, but it also showed people the advancement that medicine has taken. So basically, two positives. Go figure.
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