Surgical Robots in Hollywood III

It is always interesting to observe how does Hollywood imagine surgical robots. Read our previous coverages here, here and here.
Two recently spotted examples are from Star Wars and Terra Nova:
 
 In Star Wars Episode III, Darth Vader is treated by droids having fallen into lava.
In Terra Nova Episode 6, a dinosaur egg is operated with a master-slave robot, where the surgeon's console is a virtual hologram of the egg. The slaves are very similar to the end-effectors semi-autonomous  Medical Pod 720i in Prometheus:

Watch the complete scene below:
 
Source: MMB blog
Special thanks to Bob Webster for the materials.

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