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Smart robot: Engineer Bruce Mack with Hector, a space robot with one more arm and a lot more brains than Canadarm.
Smart robot: Engineer Bruce Mack with Hector, a space robot with one more arm and a lot more brains than Canadarm.

Smart robot: Engineer Bruce Mack with Hector, a space robot with one more arm and a lot more brains than Canadarm.

Date9/23/1992
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0130006F
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      Medical students can experiment and practise more effectively on computers and robots than on animals, a Washington physician says. Dr. Neal Barnard, 34, a psychiatrist who founded the Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine in 1984, told a seminar yesterday at a Toronto hospital that the medical community must weigh the interests of the animals before using them.
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