Robot Hands (European Success Stories, #2)

A surgeon reattaching a severed nerve works under a microscope, stitching vessels thinner than a human hair with hands that must not tremble. Even the steadiest hands have limits — a natural tremor of about a hundred micrometres that no amount of training can eliminate. For decades, microsurgeons simply accepted that limit. Then a team in Eindhoven built a robot that removed it.

This is the story of Microsure and the MUSA robot — a device that gives surgeons hands that cannot shake. Born fro...