... und zwar auf dem Schlachtfeld. Demnächst jedenfalls:

(<a href=www.washingtonpost.com target=_blank>wp) SRI International Inc. won a two-year, $12 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop a robotic surgical system that would let doctors operate on a wounded soldier on the battlefield from a remote location. The automated medical treatment system, which would not require on-site medical personnel, could be on the battlefield in 10 to 15 years, said John Bashkin, a director of business development at SRI of Menlo Park, Calif.