From Whitney Kimball and Abby Normal at Hopesandfears.com
A pair of robotic clamps approaches a tiny, glistening orb and proceeds to lay an almond-shaped flap of celluloid-thin skin over exposed flesh. The Da Vinci robot (or, robotic arms remote controlled by a surgeon looking through a high def camera) proceeds to mend a wet grape, the test subject chosen to demonstrate the robot's superhuman suturing ability with perilous, but measured, precision. After a miraculous finale– the execution of a perfect knot– the camera zooms out to underscore the enormity of scale, the fragility of the task, immediately projecting leaps of the imagination to tumors, cysts, and miniscule tissues.
But that's not the end.