Tom Scott, a British YouTuber, assisted in the robotic surgery performed on a copy of his
Representatives of Lazarus 3D usedmedical scanner to obtain data on the size, shape and position of Tom Scott's organs. Engineers then made a replica of his abdominal cavity. Luckily, there was nothing abnormal in Tom's body and he didn't need surgery, so the company artificially added a cyst to his kidney for surgeons to remove during the demonstration.
3D printing is used in various fields of activity. One application is to create realistic replicas of human bodies or their parts for training surgeons.
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