Welcome back to the workweek, Baltimore. The forecast suggests sunnier skies than the weekend, and a hopeful end (though I think I've said this before) to the intermittent chilliness of the past few months. 

While we've got a story today on the winner of the Crab Tank pitch competition we'd mentioned in last week's newsletters, today's draws from something else that took place on Friday. That's when biomedical tech startup Galen Robotics opened its 1100 Wicomico offices to the community for its first-ever open house.

There, a group of prominent guests (including Mayor Brandon Scott) got to see Galen Robotics's staff demonstrate its newest generation of surgical robots. The newest devices address issues and concerns from its prior bots in ways that, according to videos of the demos that Galen Robotics sent Technical.ly, took medical professionals' feedback into account. For instance, one robot was made much smaller and more compact to address surgeons' concerns with how much space it took up next to surgery tables.

The devices, while likely fascinating to anybody interested in this wave of surgery-assisting tech, brings up a question for all of you (and any doctors you may know): In what ways can and should tech aid surgery? What's the line between what tech should do and what surgeons should do? Does this tech present issues of redundancy for even this highly-skilled profession, as it has for those that don't require advanced degrees? 

Let us know by responding to this email or sending a message to baltimore@technical.ly.

—Technical.ly editor Sameer Rao (sameer@technical.ly)