Hundreds of thousands of surgeries are already carried out by remotely controlled robots. Their big advantage over human surgeons: Their metal hands don’t shake. Unless they have been hacked, that is.

From Weekly Filet #207, in May 2015.

When Your Surgeon Really Is a Hack

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