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Robodoc hit with malpractice

Robosurgery

Just when we were getting pretty stoked about robotic doctors, a group of German patients files suit against Integrated Surgical Systems Inc., whose joint-setting Robodoc (no, not those robodocs) machines have been used in thousands of surgeries worldwide. We're not sure if the reasons for filing suit are undisclosed or just unannounced, but we probably wouldn't want to know anyway, all those gooey internals and connective-tissue and whatnot. Yuck.