[Old Professer]

It would really be something if they could put an accelerometer in the incising end and a small feedback servomotor in the joystick so one could actually "feel" when he was touching tissue. Creative idea #11,001,001

[Erasmus]

Don't have time to look it up right now, maybe in a few hours, but there was a thread on this here a year or two ago about a cross-country remote surgery experiment. I posted my (usual erudite!) two cents.

[eno_]

Saw it in Atari's lab in Cambridge about 25 years ago.

[Erasmus]

Finally found it! Had to go back four years:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38e9ff806bbf.htm