Tag: Shane Farritor

Nebraska engineer Shane Farritor makes little robots.   It’s not that he and his team aren’t thinking big. In fact, their 2-pound robotic surgical arm, MIRA, proved its mettle in outer space this year, an unlikely journey for its 1-ton cousins.   MIRA — Miniaturized in vivo Robotic Assistant — also became the only small robotic-assisted surgical…