Just stumbled upon this article: http://imprint.printmag.com/daily-heller/surgical-design-for-surgical-equipment/
It doesn’t say much about the actual technology in the article, but these two pictures tell most of the story:
The vision:
What they’re doing:
From looking through some more info on the company’s site, it seems like the purpose is to reduce the scale at which surgery can be performed, though I could also see it being useful in full scale as well, using digital filters to reduce any hand shaking.
It seems (from the first picture) that they would like to eventually eliminate the physical input parts of the device, however I’m sure there’s force feedback and other issues if that were the case.