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00:02 Surgeries can be invasive and scary processes for patients
00:07 involving intense cuts and long recoveries.
00:10 However, this new robot could make serious surgeries
00:13 more efficient by giving doctors a way to see better
00:16 and manipulate tissue in wild new ways.
00:19 This is Dr. Alberto Rodriguez Navarro,
00:21 surgeon and founder of Levita Magnetic,
00:23 the company behind the new mechanism.
00:25 According to him, it gives surgeons an unprecedented view
00:28 inside a person's body during surgery,
00:30 which he says is critical,
00:31 not only letting them make fewer cuts,
00:33 but also speeding up the process
00:35 and allowing for more surgeries in a single day.
00:37 And if you're wondering about
00:38 the company's magnetic nomenclature,
00:40 it's named that because the new surgical process
00:42 involves a robot, which is equipped with high-powered magnets
00:45 allowing magnets to be attached to body tissue and organs,
00:48 which doctors can then manipulate
00:50 more safely than other methods.
00:52 With Dr. Rodriguez Navarro saying,
00:53 "This process reduces incisions, pain, scars,
00:56 "and time in rehab,
00:58 "the robotic surgical platform was just cleared for use
01:00 "by the USDA this past fall,
01:02 "with its first commercial surgery recently taking place
01:05 "at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio."
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