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Collaboration with a robotic scrub nurse

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Surgeons use hand gestures and/or voice commands without interrupting the natural flow of a procedure.

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                        Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 5
                        May 2013
                        90 pages
                        ISSN:0001-0782
                        EISSN:1557-7317
                        DOI:10.1145/2447976
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