NASA Commentator Lori Meggs talks with Dr. Mehran Anvari, a professor of surgery at McMaster University in Canada and the scientific officer for the Center for Surgical Invention and Innovation/IGAR, about the transfer of the robotics technology behind the International Space Station’s Canadarm-2 into the operating room here on Earth, and about how that technology might assist future space travelers should they ever be called upon to perform tele-surgery while on some future deep space mission.