Newer cars and the new iPhone use haptic feedback, a small vibration in the steering wheel or the home button, to signal you have crossed over the white line on the highway or you have pushed the home button on your iPhone. A team at Australia’s Deakin University and Harvard University have used similar technology in a new surgical robot called HeroSurg. As the surgeon guides the robot arms, the handles they are holding give them haptic feedback so they know when they touched certain tissues. The feedback is proportional to the amount of resistance the robot arm feels. The potential is to enable the robotic surgeon to do more accurate and safer surgery. At some point, the surgeon removing your gall bladder may be a thousand miles away. Read the full story at Groundbreaking new robot to give surgeons a sense of touch.  Read more about robotic surgery in Health Attitude.