Brussels, 28/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - On Monday 28 November, the European Commission announced that EU-funded researchers from Germany, Italy, Israel and the UK have achieved a breakthrough development in robotic neurosurgery. The Robocast project has developed a new type of robot that gives two important advantages to surgeons: 13 degrees (types) of movement, compared to the four available to human hands during minimally invasive surgery, and “haptic feedback” (the physical cues which...