This robot will drill a hole in your skull

RoBoSculpt has been created to safely mill a cavity of the desired size in a patient's skull base.

While the idea of robots drilling holes in our skulls may seem like a dystopian image from a "Terminator" film, the reality is much less alarming.

RoBoSculpt, a new surgery robot developed by researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, has been created to safely mill a cavity of the desired size in a patient's skull base with "sub-millimeter precision."