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"I'm strictly an ivory-tower person. I can explain things but I can't do things."
- Isaac Asimov
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Robot Surgeon |
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An autonomous robotic surgeon. |
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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. |
From The Bicentennial Man,
by Isaac Asimov.
Published by Unknown in 1976
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