da Vinci...

I am participating in Leadership North Carolina. A year long professional development program covering economic development, education, health care, government, and environment. On this last trip we got to see the da Vinci surgical robot. I even got to try it out on a training module. They didn't let me use it on anything that was alive :-) Incredible piece of machinery (1.7 million dollars worth). 12% of all heart surgeries are now conducted with this software/hardware.