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National Post - Meet Dr. McSleepy, your robot anesthetist

Published: 20 October 2010

They may sound like an odd couple, but da Vinci and McSleepy are a robotic surgical dream team.

In what's being billed as a world first, the two robots worked together in a Montreal hospital to perform a fully automated prostate operation while a surgeon and an anaesthesiologist manned workstations nearby. Dr. Armen Aprikian, the chief urologist at the McGill University Health Centre, controlled the da Vinci machine during the delicate procedure last week.

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