Imagine this: This is a high-tech, crystal-clean, and sterile room designed to prevent any earthly contaminants from hitchhiking a ride to Mars. You can imagine this, right? Because on the inside, you ...

Here’s a scene from the not-too-distant future. In a bright, high-tech operating room, a sleek robotic arm stands poised next to the operating table. The autonomous robot won’t operate completely ...