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"One could imagine a very ascetic sort of life ... where the body is ignored. This is something I've played with in my books, where people hate to be reminded sometimes that they have bodies, they find it very slow and tedious."
- William Gibson
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| Robot Surgeon | ||
| An autonomous robotic surgeon. |
| Facing him from behind the desk was the surgeon The nameplate on the desk
included a fully identifying series of letters and numbers which Andrew
didn't bother with. To call him Doctor would be quite enough.
"When can the operation be carried through, Doctor?" he asked. Softly, with that certain inalienable note of respect that a robot always used to a human being, the surgeon said, "I am not certain, sir, that I understand how or upon whom such an operation could be performed." There might have been a look of respectful intransigence on the surgeon's face, if a robot of his sort, in lightly bronzed stainless steel, could have such an expression - or any expression. Andrew Martin studied the robot's right hand, his cutting hand, as it lay motionless on the desk. The fingers were long and were shaped into artistically metallic, looping curves so -graceful and appropriate that one could imagine a scalpel fitting them and becoming, temporarily, one piece with them. There would be no hesitation in his work, no stumbling, no quivering, no mistakes. That confidence came with specialization, of course, a specialization so fiercely desired by humanity that few robots were, any longer, independently brained. A surgeon, of course, would have to be. |
| Technovelgy from The Bicentennial Man,
by Isaac Asimov. Published by Ballantine Books in 1976 Additional resources -
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Compare to robot surgery from Secret of the Buried City (1939) by John Russell Fearn.
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