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A photograph related to the Co-Me project of Professor Michael
Thali, University of Bern, has been selected as Picture of the Month
by the Swiss National Science Foundation. It shows Virtobot, a
forensic high-tech helpmate which is used to perform virtual autopsies
at the University of Bern's
Institute of Forensic Medicine. Developed as part of the NCCR
Co-Me, the industrial robot provides forensic doctors with a high
precision, three-dimensional image of cadavers. For the first time
ever cadavers can be digitally preserved and autopsies conducted
again, even years later, for instance when new evidence turns up in an
unsolved case.
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