The Tenchini Project was born in 2008 at the MAFS (Departmental Museum of Human Anatomy, Pharmacology and Medical-Forensic Sciences) of Parma University. It combines the technical skills of the ENEA Protocenter Laboratory and the CINECA Visit Laboratory of Bologna and has national and international scope, availing itself of expert scientific collaboration. Its short-term aim is to construct a virtual multi-media hyper-test, navigable in internet, concerning the anatomical material of the Tenchini Collection, conserved at the MAFS of Parma. A first version of this hyper-test is already visible on the website www.anfamedmuseo.unipr.it. It also has the long-term aim of contributing to the development of biomedical robotics, and in particular to the generation and training of automata equipped with evolutional capacity. Overall, the project is placed at the service of a specific healthcare requirement, that of improving the technical reliability of surgical and diagnostic procedures operated by machines, especially in extreme situations where the action of human operators is severely limited.