Trauma Pod To Stitch Up Pigs

Monday

$12 million. That's the amount of money that the Pentagon is giving SRI International, for a two-year contract to develop an unmanned "trauma pod" - a robot that can carry out surgery on injured front line troops while still under fire and then transport them to safety.

It would make a lot more sense to send robot troops to do the fighting in the first place.

"Researchers hope to show that a surgeon, operating the robot remotely, can stitch together two blood vessels of a pig." It's a sad state of affairs when the Pentagon is reduced to sending pigs into front line action.