One day a surgeon on Earth could use this robot to treat an astronaut on Mars.
NASA is funding a tiny surgical robot, known as MIRA (minitaturized in-vivo robotic assistant), for a 2024 test mission aboard the International Space Station.
The space agency recently awarded $100,000 to startup Virtual Incision, based at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Nebraska Innovation Campus (NIC), where Shane Farritor has spent more than 15 years developing MIRA…