r/oddlysatisfying 4d ago

Performing surgery on a grape to demonstrate the precision of the machine

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u/undeadsasquatch 4d ago

Well, if I ever need all my skin peeled off, I now know there is a machine for that, so that's great.

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u/BMW_wulfi 4d ago

Don’t be ridiculous. This is for peeling the skin off grapes!

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u/C-57D 4d ago

Please please don't peel the skin off my grapes

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u/MyPasswordIs222222 4d ago

I remember a childhood slumber party initiation that included being blindfolded and told to reach into a bowl of peeled grapes. The were 'eye balls' and you had to eat them.

I think there was a version where they were testicles... but that's not as scary if you were into rocky mountain oysters from a young age.

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u/throwawaygosh12345 3d ago

I did this in preschool for Halloween, and I can’t eat grapes to this day because I freaked the fuck out. They tried to show me that it was just grapes, and I remember hyperventilating from how hard I was scream-crying.

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u/Practical_Ad_500 3d ago

😂 That’s a good haunted house party. If no one cries it misses the mark.

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u/Hephaestus_God 4d ago

That will be $834,567.00

Looks like the insurance you pay for said 🖕 so they just won’t cover anything. Payment needs to be made in full by next month or we will repossess all your assets.

Kind regards :)

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u/Infallible_Ibex 4d ago

Don't exaggerate, they are happy to make an interest free payment plan of $69,547.25 for 12 months.

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u/spacekitt3n 3d ago

praying to saint luigi to make my medical bills go away

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u/undeadsasquatch 4d ago

Can I sell my skin to cover it?

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u/Super_Snakes 4d ago

There is also another machine that's great for that...

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u/CallCenterBlues 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/BENDOWANDS 4d ago

Oh no, not again

flashbacks intensify

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u/Orgidee 4d ago

It’s only 15 years old

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u/usbeehu 4d ago

It's already 15 years old??? I had to check this, geez, time really files.

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u/Orgidee 4d ago

It was actually just a guess but after a search I see I nailed it on the head

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u/superabletie4 3d ago

The video is 15 y/o the meme is from 2018

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u/ashbelero 3d ago

I assure you we’ve been talking about surgery on a grape since Tumblr was at the height of relevancy.

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u/J_train13 3d ago

So in 5 or so years from now? After everyone else goes down the drain via incompetency and they're all that's left through doing nothing.

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u/BroadAd5229 4d ago

FIFTEEN?!

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u/sparklinglies 4d ago

this fcking stupid ass meme i swear to god

anyway, they did surgery on a grape y'all.......

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u/No-Engineering-1449 4d ago

its like a circle it always manages to come back to the surgery on the grape, because as it turns out, the circle is oddly grape shaped.

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u/Pudix20 4d ago

That’s right! The square hole!

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u/BuggyWhipArmMF 4d ago

And if you look closely at that grape, we are precisely at the part where they did surgery on a grape

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u/calangomerengue 4d ago

I was living under a rock at that time. Just learned about this meme.

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u/Jaderosegrey 3d ago

It's still pretty fascinating. Don't wine.

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u/redditproha 4d ago

I wish grape a speedy recovery

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u/Buddyslime 4d ago

I wanted to see the skin stitched back on.

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u/martiHUN 4d ago

I'm getting nostalgic over this stupid meme, Jesus Christ...

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u/DrH1983 4d ago

There must be people alive who missed this meme. Thank you for the memories.

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u/le___tigre 3d ago

I am one of these people. please help.

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u/Forsaken-Syllabub427 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/DEIreboot 4d ago

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u/56000hp 4d ago

I should call her …..

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u/ThePieWizard 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/-endjamin- 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Y0___0Y 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/DEIreboot 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/fosta02 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/gameking7823 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/dankmemeshovel 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/lechtl 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/oaklandas2005 4d ago

ON A GRAPE?!

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u/chux4w 4d ago

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u/CallCenterBlues 4d ago

Is this grape?

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u/int9r 4d ago

Did he survive?

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u/lechtl 4d ago

ON A GRAPE!!??

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u/New_Performance_9356 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/maxisfishy 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/v3ryfuzzyc00t3r 4d ago

I bet your the insurance coverage is apples compared to what he'll be billed

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u/Hippiechu 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape?

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u/zzyzx_pazuzu 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape?

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u/ChefCuda 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Condhor 4d ago

We had a funeral for a bird!

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u/Mysterious-Pay-517 3d ago

It let out a little wine

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u/s1eve_mcdichae1 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape!!

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u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 4d ago

That's so grape, raisin' the precision

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u/AngelsMessenger 3d ago

😂I hope they gave it anesthesia

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u/-mushroom-cat- 3d ago

I am so mad this isn't the top comment.

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u/Einaiden 4d ago

I'm all for laparoscopic and micro surgery but I'm out when they want to use a wooden dowel up my ass to stabilize me for said surgery

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u/LOPI-14 4d ago

Would you prefer said dowel to be made out of metal or plastic instead?

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u/Einaiden 4d ago

Splinters

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u/Theron3206 3d ago

At least you can sterilise the metal...

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u/RIP_GerlonTwoFingers 3d ago

Don’t worry they use a dragon dildo for humans

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u/__T0MMY__ 3d ago

Ew I have to have surgery in order to get the dowel?

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u/ipilotlocusts 4d ago

Should definitely be silicone yeah

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u/Cloud_N0ne 4d ago

Not this shit again.

I still have PTSD from the “tHeY diD SuRgeRy oN a GraPe” shit from a decade ago.

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u/Xaelomar 4d ago edited 4d ago

The simple fact "a decade ago" sounds even remotely possible gave me a panic attack

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u/misterfistyersister 4d ago

The original video was from 2010. The meme began in 2018.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-did-surgery-on-a-grape

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u/Cloud_N0ne 4d ago

The meme definitely existed in 2014 or earlier. I remember people at school saying that “they did surgery on a grape” line at least in my senior year of high school, which ended in 2014.

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u/canadiandude321 3d ago

You are misremembering. The meme was from 2018.

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/they-did-surgery-on-a-grape

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u/Cloud_N0ne 3d ago

Wrong. This “they did surgery on a grape” predates that. Know Your Meme is wrong

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u/Ballbuddy4 3d ago

Worst meme of all time

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u/Cloud_N0ne 4d ago

More than a decade ago, in fact. I remember this shit during at least senior year of high school, and I graduated 11 years ago.

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u/teethalarm 4d ago

Every time I have a realization that something happened a lot longer ago than I realized I find another white hair in my beard.

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u/Radiant_Actuary7325 4d ago

This is called the davinci robot. It is produced in a way where it has required yet avoidable service intervals due to an intentional design flaw that renders a circuitry component useless. This was done intentionally to increase manufacturer revenue. A very scummy thing to do. My dad owned a third party surgical equipment repair sales company. This was a target product to bring in but the lawsuits between his repair facility and the manufacturer were going on and on.

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u/zarya-zarnitsa 4d ago

Wait what.

We have one in our hospital, and it's the one that is working. We have a HUGO too and it causes even more problems.

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u/Radiant_Actuary7325 4d ago

They may have adjusted things since all that drama around a decade ago to appease customers. I'm pretty sure their patent expired. My dad got out of that business around 2013 if I remember correctly so who knows now. I just remember using one when I was in college and visited a repair facility, and being told that was a future market. This is all old news so no worries talking about it now.

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u/Drag0nz_Wrath13 4d ago

Having been apart of budget and fiscal meetings for hospitals, I know that on average each arm of the robot costs approx $150k. They are replaced it felt like weekly (several arms had different functions and were swapped out) and the biggest perpetrator was actually the cleaning/sterilization process. These arms are so delicate that the pressure washing process they go through would break them often.

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u/Abundance144 4d ago

Each arm has a certain number of uses regardless of how it's sterilized. If you ever get a chance to open one of these up you'll see very fine wires and machinery that cannot hold up to continuous use. Whether that's by design or simply a limitation our current level of product and materials, I do not know.

Imagine having a car with an axel that's the thickness of a sharpie. The car will run, and the manufacturer will offer you a five mile warranty. But in the case of the robot, the "axel" is that thickness due to the necessity of the size of the cavity that it's designed to work in.

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u/Aleraen4311 4d ago

The parent company also fought regulators to decrease the amount of required training to recommend hospitals, as the actual length of training required to safely operate the robot was considered to be prohibitive. As a result, there are a significant number of cases of badly botched surgeries resulting from these machines.

'The Bleeding Edge' on Netflix talks about it and other potentially dangerous medical devices.

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u/Rowlandum 3d ago

I've had the chance to play with one of these. I'm not a surgeon. They are really easy to pick up and just use. The screen has great depth perception, the instruments feel like your own hands as you operate them. I tried the same simulation with conventional methods and it was no where near as easy, hell easy wouldn't even be the right word to use

Moral of the story, don't make judgements based on popular media

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u/Radiant_Actuary7325 4d ago

Honestly, they are super easy to use lol. I could fold origami with it within a minute. It's super intuitive

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u/--Anonymus-- 3d ago

And the cost of a surgery with the davinci is much higher than without. My dad once told me (he is a surgeon) that simple prostate surgeries with the davinci cost twice as much as doing them per Hand. Because the instruments and stuff are so expensive

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u/MonsterUpdateWhen 4d ago

surgery They grape on a did

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u/CalliopePenelope 4d ago

That grape is flatlining!!!

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u/C-57D 4d ago

NEED 50 CCs OF GRAPE JUICE, STAT

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u/Regularpaytonhacksaw 4d ago

That is the davinci XI robotic surgery assistant. We have 6 at the hospital I work at and one was recently updated to the davinci 5 machine. They’re used for thousands of surgeries a year and the incisions made by them are smaller than a penny in some cases. Incredible machines and people really don’t understand how incredible it is that you can do surgery on a grape. They could do it on a blueberry if they wanted to.

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u/Vivid_Trainer7370 3d ago

I have done the the same thing on a grape with my fingers. Doesn’t seem that impressive?

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u/Dr-Penguin- 4d ago

They did surgery in a grape

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u/Sometimes-funny 4d ago

Apparently they didn’t get the local anaesthetic right and the grape let out a little wine

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u/C-57D 4d ago

Grape's lawyer gonna be raisin hell

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u/Sometimes-funny 4d ago

He packs a punch

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u/khizoa 4d ago

hmm idk, that doesnt look like the inside of a grape to me. but i usually eat organic and not bionic grapes

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u/mbashs 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/generally_unsuitable 4d ago

I have a friend who is a surgeon, and she uses these things regularly for work. You look at this and think "Hell, I could do that with a bit of practice. But, I am told that in reality, the patient is not as still as a grape, and that the real trick to using this machine on a living patient, is that you have to mimic the relevant rhythms of their body. So, for many things, she has to kinda "tune into" their respiration rate, and match it, then express it through the machine, while doing the surgery. Imagine playing the game "Operation," but the game keeps moving up and down 10 times a minute.

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u/Agreeable_Pain_5512 3d ago

The most difficult thing is you lack tactile feedback at the controls. But the ability to articulate the arms inside whatever cavity you're operating in is a game changer. The better visualization too.

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u/haltingpoint 3d ago

What does it feel like to operate one? Like, what is the feedback on it like?

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u/Agreeable_Pain_5512 3d ago

Feedback is ... Artificial, like electric power steering on modern cars. IE if you're peeling a grape with your bare hands or hand held instruments you'd learn how much force it takes for the skin to rip by feel. With the da Vinci robot you'd need to learn by non tactile experience.

I personally think one should at least have some experience doing the same operation in an open fashion or even via non robotic "traditional" thoracoscopy or laparoscopy to get some idea of how tissue handling feels before moving onto the robot.

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u/haltingpoint 3d ago

I realize this may be a poor analogy, but is it similar perhaps to flying a plane vs flight sims? In the sim you only have visual and auditory feedback to go off of vs the plane where you have very physical sensations to guide you. As such, you can develop a sense of the process, visuals, and general experience, but it doesn't translate 1:1.

Are there any free or inexpensive surgery simulators for the consumer market?

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u/Rowlandum 3d ago

The latest one has force feedback. I've tried one, you can honestly feel the pulls and pushes and uts quite natural

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u/Polycute420 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Available-Hat1640 4d ago

where halo music

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u/CIELAB 4d ago

they did surgery on a grape

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u/BikelJordan 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Best_Mycologist9714 4d ago

So this is them? The infamous "they"?

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u/SquidWhisperer 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/Mysterious-Key1306 4d ago

I got to play around on one of these in high school. One of the medical buildings of Washington State University had I think one of the first few made or one of the first ones in the pnw. It was a pretty interesting experience. They had rubber spikes that we put rings on using the little grabbers

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u/SystemAny4819 4d ago

OH GOD ITS THE FUCKING GRAPE SURGERY AGAIN

HERE WE GO

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u/atp_gamer 3d ago

Hope the grape is recovering well

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u/DiegoBMe84 3d ago

I wonder how much they charged the grapes insurance for this procedure.

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u/Fresh_Sir_6695 4d ago

So when they said they did surgery on a grape, they actually surgically skinned the poor bastard alive using the worlds most expensive skin alive equipment? God damn... THeY DiD MeDiEvAl SuRgErY On A GrApE

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u/Mobile-Sandwich-6232 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/_heyb0ss 4d ago

they did surgery on a grape

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u/That-Addendum-9064 4d ago

this was the dumbest fucking meme i never understood why it was even a thing

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u/BunkerSquirre1 4d ago

We reposting 10 year old memes now?

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u/Successful-Ad849 4d ago

Hey! That's the Da Vinci surgical robot that they used for my hernia surgery! I had it done at University of Washington hospital in Seattle and it worked so well I don't have a single scar.

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u/Crenorz 4d ago

OK so real question - they are pulling and tearing - not cutting. With this tech, can we start using better cutting tools? IE like Obsidian blades? It gives way better cutting and heals better (no scars)

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u/Numbersuu 3d ago

Did they call the family of the grape beforehand?

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u/Teemomatic 4d ago

i mean it's cool and all but name one example of when a grape will need surgery.

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u/Nope-Nope13702 4d ago

Beulah, peel me a grape.

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u/xmashatstand 4d ago

I am most bemused by the apparent ubiquity of this grape meme I’ve never seen in my life 😆

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u/nounproject 4d ago

Me prepping a snack for my kids

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u/VEAG0 4d ago

Considering this isn’t NSFW I’m assuming the grape survived.

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u/zyyntin 4d ago

Being held down with something up your butt was an option!?!

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u/commielizard47 4d ago

They did surgery on a grape.

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u/nicnac223 4d ago

Is the grape gonna be ok??

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u/ThatDarnRosco 4d ago

Did the grape make it?

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u/KevinIsOver9000 4d ago

I do this all the time when I eat grapes with my teeth. Not impressive….lol

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u/McKeviin 🤔 4d ago

Welcome to 2014

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u/RoboticGreg 4d ago

Doing things like this to grapes is common in surgical demonstration because of the fragility of the structures and the fineness of the details and the relatability (everyone is familiar with grapes). I used to develop surgical devices and one of the skill demonstrations one of the surgeons I worked with did was smash a grape, put it in a match box then he could sew the skin together behind his back

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u/Scared-Education-799 4d ago

Wow that made me uncomfortable

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u/Kyotomachida 4d ago

I can do that with my teeth. Just saying

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u/reddit455 4d ago

this is how they show off/warm up/stretch

da Vinci Surgical System Folding Origami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOAKX5oAVMg

Seattle Doctor Folds and Throws Paper Airplane Using da Vinci Robot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq-_riKtzsY

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u/ChefAsstastic 4d ago

I had my prostate surgery with a surgeon who used this machine. 7 hours under general. What an experience.

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u/SenatorBus_ 4d ago

Stereotypical Greek Aristocrat: Slave! Peel me a grape!
Modern Tech Billionaire: Here is the equipment my MIT doctorate chef uses to peel me a grape!

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u/The-Aeon 3d ago

The Grape: I just came in for a checkup!

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u/Spirited_State2867 3d ago

This is not surgery. This is skinning a grape. Surgery would be putting the skin back and stiching it which was not done. 1/10

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u/BrianVaughnVA 3d ago

How the hell can the grape afford this???

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u/Athrynne 3d ago

The surgeon that did my hysterectomy used this robot to remove my uterus! He also teaches other surgeons how to do robot assisted surgery.

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u/Impossiblegangsta 3d ago

I can do this with my fingers

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u/milkmochabeow 3d ago

Pretty sure this is the Da Vinci surgery robot. We have two used for gynecological surgeries and urological surgeries. The occasional abdo surgery as well. Recovery is shortened from less insufflation and pain is usually more tolerable postop for patients after these surgeries. Looks like the surgeons are playing a VR game when operating, surgical techs/nurses stand by to move the table or adjust things along the way. Amazing stuff.

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u/DanteMercer21 3d ago

theres another(i think) one where they graft another color grapes skin. i think they stiched one too

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u/Practical_Ad_500 3d ago

I want to see the comparison of a human doing it without the machine and they get goggles or whatever they use to see closer.

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u/RandomOnlinePerson99 3d ago

So, what did you do at work today?

Just the usual, peeling grapes and shit ...

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u/Real_Avdima 3d ago

Will they also shove a stick up my ass? I am still uncertain whether this would be bad or not.

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u/Possessed_potato 3d ago

They did surgery on a grape

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u/barfbutler 3d ago

This is a machine from Intuitive Surgical called Da Vinci.

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u/Erosion139 3d ago

They used this machine on me for my recent surgery

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u/mellamoreddit 3d ago

Davinci Surgical Robot. The surgeon is working it remotely in a corner of the OR. Pretty cool to see the level of precision.

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u/Competitive-Maize962 2d ago

In my humble opinion the scissors might minimize tissue damage and avoid jossling the grape if they made more frequent cuts at shorter intervals

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u/Charl_E_ 2d ago

Omg they did surgery on a grape

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u/Shaunlab 4d ago

Only slightly better then my toe-knife

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u/thehermit14 4d ago

Being an Emperor is slower today than 3000yrs ago.

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u/TurtleAppreciator 4d ago

This is grape news for the future of medicine

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u/shingaladaz 4d ago

Yeah but can it play DOOM?

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u/BoringPhilosopher1 4d ago

So a grape can get a skin transplant but I can't even get an appointment to see my GP

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u/LeroyMustangs 4d ago

You can bet it’s a European grape. The US grape died fighting its insurance for 6 months to cover the procedure.

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u/Cesalv 4d ago

Da Vinci are the gold standard for those machines, let's hope they will always rely on skilled humans and not ai 🤞🏻

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u/theacidplan 4d ago

Gavin Free would be very amused

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u/Pork_Chompk 4d ago

That's awesome if I need my grapes peeled.

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u/GlamourPulseRush 4d ago

The way it peels the skin like a tiny banana is weirdly satisfying.

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u/SamuraiKenji 4d ago

Grape has a medical care better than me.

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u/robotsheriff 4d ago

As someone who has gotten to play with DaVinci machine, the harder skill is trying to pick up a rubber band and stretch it over two points using those controls.

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u/marksfx 4d ago

WOOOOOW GRAPE!🇵🇰

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u/5ofDecember 4d ago

My gf eating grapes

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u/Bye_for_good 4d ago

That huge ass machine to do that tiny ass surgery? 🧐

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u/Crispy_Potato_Chip 4d ago

That grape has better healthcare than I do

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u/Forrestape 4d ago

Big deal. I can do that with my teeth

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u/lakshmananlm 4d ago

The skewered grape only whined a little when cut....

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u/skipjack_sushi 4d ago

Skin peeling robots are not scary at all.

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u/strumthebuilding 4d ago

I was actually expecting more precision. The urologist who did my vasectomy made smaller incisions on my grapes.

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u/nlamber5 4d ago

I would get frustrated and smash the grape.

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u/Here-Is-TheEnd 4d ago

Alright people, our 32 million dollar machine is ready for testing. JENKINS!! Here’s a nickel, go buy me a single grape, no need for a second. Don’t forget to bring back the change!

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u/Cecil_B_DeCatte 4d ago

I got to use one of the surgical robots in a simulated OR. The technology is amazing.

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u/Throw_me_a_drone 4d ago

This is how my 6 yo wants me to prepare her grapes. Every single one every single time.

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u/Additional_Main_7198 4d ago

That's flaying a grape

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u/bootybandit729 4d ago

Account is 66 days old and almost has a quarter million points. Bro just spamming every video they can think of

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u/RealitySkewer 4d ago

Wake me up when they can carve a Dickbutt on the skin.

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u/Footner 4d ago

They left a graping hole in it afterwards 

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u/Nathaniel-Prime 4d ago

My...my time machine worked! It's 2018!

Quick, to China! We gotta stop that one guy from eating a bat!

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u/Bluedemonde 4d ago

I’ll be impressed when they put the skin back on and it heals with little to know scarring and the grape goes on to live a happy and fulfilling life.

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u/Metaboschism 4d ago

Now stitch them back on

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u/jim_the-gun-guy 4d ago

Well I k ow the grapes problem, it was skewered.

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u/nancyboy 4d ago

Grape Against the Machine.

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u/Attempt-989 4d ago

Not exactly the way I thought a vasectomy was performed.

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u/PracticeNo8617 4d ago

Dr. Strange is now trying to decide if he should go back in time with this invention and risk it