Right? Why should you care that they did surgery on a grape? Well, the purpose of the videos was to show how a surgeon sitting at a computer console and using controllers to manipulate robotic surgical equipment may be able to perform some very fine and precise surgical motions, including peeling and suturing a grape. Let's assume that none of the Tweets, Instagram posts, and YouTube videos are sarcastic, because after all sarcasm never happens on social media. Indeed, something has certainly gone viral when a single word Tweet, "grape,"gets over 254K likes. You'll notice that the replies to the Peter MacCullum Cancer Center tweet really picked up on November 24. That's when bunches and bunches of Tweets, YouTube videos, Instagram posts, and shared pictures began to appear, including every type of permutation of "they did surgery on a grape" that you can imagine and pictures of grapes in all kinds of positions, some of them compromising.
Still not a grape reaction until the week of Thanksgiving, when the videos and the Tweet for some reason started "raisin" a whole lot more attention. Here's some pictures from today's shoot with Peter Mac's Director of Robotic Surgery showing how our da Vinci Xi robot works, performing precision surgery on a grape. Then in May of this year, a Tweet from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Center in May of this year stated along with pictures: "BEHIND THE SCENES. As with the first video, this second video didn't seem to draw that much attention from the Interwebs. Also, they probably wanted to use something that was more expendable (sorry grapes), less gory, and with fewer privacy concerns than a human patient or an orange.Ī sequel to the 2010 video emerged 4 years later in 2014, presumably starring a different grape. After all, "they did surgery on a watermelon" may not have been as effective to demonstrate the same degree of precision. Rather the grape may have been an example of something rather small, delicate, and slippery on which to demonstrate the performance of this robotic surgery system.
It wasn't clear if the grape really needed surgery.
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