Virtual Reality: Ground control to major surgery

Posted on 2 Sep 2020 by The Manufacturer

Simon Edmonds explores how virtual reality is helping train medical students remotely and highlights further funding initiatives currently being awarded to tackle the impact of COVID-19.

In last month’s column three manufacturing projects funded through the Innovate UK COVID-19 fast-start competition were featured. Another excellent example of a project currently gaining funding is one where Industry 4.0 technologies, that once remotely guided the Mars Rover millions of miles from Earth, are now being used to create a virtual reality platform to…

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