If you never thought you'd see a piece on healthcare technology on Buzzfeed, you were wrong, so wrong. A new video showing a da Vinci surgical robot suturing a grape has been viewed close to 400,000 times after a post on Buzzfeed highlighted it on Thursday. The post, "A Tiny Robot Performed Surgery On A Wounded Grape And It’s Surprisingly Super Cute" ultimately asks the question: Why is this so cute?
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While 'cute' is not a term you hear among healthcare circles describing these robots, tools like the da Vinci are starting to have a big effect on the industry as more hospitals are spending the big bucks needed to add these to their rosters. For example, the da Vinci systems can cost more than $2 million. Google has also announced plans to enter the surgical robot market.
[Also: Google, J&J partner on robots (Healthcare IT News)]
A new report by Research and Markets priced the surgical robot device market at $3.2 billion in 2014, and it expects that to balloon to $20 billion by 2021.