Watch “The da Vinci Robot Plays "Operation" Board Game,” a board game entertainment video for Operation from JHU LCSR Robotics on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by JHU LCSR Robotics on YouTube:
Tackling the game "Operation" with the da Vinci Surgical System (by Intuitive Surgical Inc.).
Students at the Johns Hopkins University Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics (LCSR) unwind after a long day of research. Our research da Vinci robot enables precision control and unmatched dexterity for even the most critical tasks.
Featuring PhD students:
Carol Reiley (http://www.creiley.com twitter: robot_md )
Tom Tantillo
Kel Guerin (http://futureneer.com/home.html )
Please visit our website (http://www.lcsr.jhu.edu ) to see more of our cool work!
Some reviews and how-to-play. Operation is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 9 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 23 other videos.
1 - 6 players
10 min
Light weight: Learn it in minutes
About Operation, from BoardGameGeek:
Operation is a dexterity game in which you must extract silly body parts from a hapless patient. In the course of the game you acquire cards which dictate that you must remove a certain piece from the body of the patient. To do this you use a set of tweezers that are attached by wire to the game board. If you are sloppy and touch the metal sides of the hole where the item is located, the patient's pain is indicated by a sudden buzzer and light-up nose. Successful extractions net cash, and the player with the most cash at the end of the game is the winner.
Various editions change the patient and the items to be removed, but the game stays the same in its essence:
Shrek -- just like the classic version, but with Shrek.
Simpsons -- Remove Homer's Bowler's Thumb, Pot Belly, Foot in Mouth, Rubber Neck, Trick Knee, etc.
T-Rex -- excavating bones of a T. Rex
Spiderman 3 -- healing all of Spiderman's ailments
Pit Stop -- manipulating various car parts instead of people-parts
Star Wars -- just like classic version, but with R2D2 and C3PO