A miniaturized surgical robot, developed by Shane Farritor and Nebraska engineers, will aboard a spacecraft to be launched at 11:07 a.m. CST Tuesday, Jan. 30 from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Virtual Incision’s surgical robot is part of NASA’s Northrup Grumman 20th Commercial Resupply Services Mission Launch on a Space X Falcon 9 rocket that is scheduled to fly to the International Space Station, where it will be tested in the ISS’s orbital laboratory. Virtual Incision is a startup company co-founded by Farritor and Dmitry Oleynikov, MD, that has its headquarters in Lincoln.
You can watch the event by registering at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nasas-northrop-grumman-20th-commercial-resupply-services-mission-launch-registration-708590572477?aff=NVITE. By registering, you will receive a notification and link shortly before the launch. Registrants will also be provided communications about launch schedule changes, information about other launch-related activities and access to curated launch resources.
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