Online Movies:
- Movie 1: MrBot Robot, CAD Animation of the Interventional Setup [wmv, 495Kb]: http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/pub/2007‐stoianovici‐mitat‐M1.wmv.
- Movie 2: MrBot Robot Motion [wmv, 1.58Mb]: http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/pub/2007‐stoianovici‐mitat‐M2.wmv.
- Movie 3: MrBot Robot in the MRI Scanner [wmv, 1.41Mb]: http://urology.jhu.edu/urobotics/pub/2007‐stoianovici‐mitat‐m3.wmv.
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