A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team—like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.
The robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real life medical emergencies.
without human help
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responded to and learned from voice commands from the team
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You underestimate the demands on a surgeon’s body to perform surgery. This makes it much less prone to tiredness, mistakes, or even if the surgeon is physically incapable in any way of continuing life saving surgery
That’s absolutely not the point. I was criticizing the journalism, not technology. 🙄
They should have specified “without physical human help.”
I have seen enough ER to know that operating theatre staff work as a team. So I consider this would be a good thing.
SurgeonGPT?
If we go by that logic, some worker from your supermarket should be able to do surgeries
Doctors have to learns this much so they can handle most really unusual stuff, not because they have to know this for a standard surgery.
so theoretically they could make sex bots and train them on… so they perform ‘unflappably’!
You can already get AI strokers that apparently were trained on and sync to videos.
That’s ridiculous. Everyone knows that for a robot to perform an operation like this safely, it needs human-written code and a LiDAR.
you could not pay me enough to have my surgery done by a robot
yeah, it’s much better to have a towel left inside of you by a real human.
If it were the only option, I’d gladly take it.
I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.
Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.
Yeah it’s not like I refuse to drive my car because it wasn’t handcrafted by a human.
It is an electrical fault on four wheels, but that’s just because it’s old.
They obviously don’t feel comfortable with the robot doing surgery on humans just yet either which is why they’re not actually suggesting doing that yet. It will have to go through years and years of certification before that’s even considered.
I’m sure most surgeries will still be conducted by humans but there are situations where one of these would be extremely helpful. Any situation where a surgeon isn’t currently accessible and can’t quickly get there. Remote communities, Disaster relief, Arctic research facilities, Starships trapped in the Delta quadrant, War zones, Ships at sea.
Do you think a 5 bed hospital will have the money to afford a robotic surgeon?
You assume an Antarctic research facility lacks funds?
thank you for removing my gallbladder robot, but i had a brain tumor
Hold on 3P0…you gotta little piece of human stuff stuck on your right end effector clamp top hinge pin. There, all good! Continue!
It does until it doesn’t
Really hope they tried it on a grape first at least.
Not fair. A robot can watch videos and perform surgery but when I do it I’m called a “monster” and “quack”.
But seriously, this robot surgeon still needs a surgeon to chaperone so what’s being gained or saved? It’s just surgery with extra steps. This has the same execution as RoboTaxis (which also have a human onboard for emergencies) and those things are rightly being called a nightmare. What separates this from that?
Human flaw. A surgeon doesnt require steady hands. So if they were in any way damaged they could still continue being a surgeon.
It can’t sneeze
Naturally as this kind of thing moves into use on actual people it will be used on the wealthiest and most connected among us in equal measure to us lowly plebs right…right?
Are you kidding!? It’ll be rolled out to poor people first! (gotta iron out the last of the bugs somehow)
You really don’t understand modern medical bullshit. The rich will be all over this, just like AI, Just like NFTs just like every bullshit thing that comes up they get roped into by a flashy salesman
Oh yeah, I’ve been successfully propagandized into thinking rich people became rich through merit, I forgot how many of them are complete morons XD
Thanks for reminding me
Maybe we could install a murder mode switch.
Perhaps an algorithm where its effectiveness is inversely proportionate to your bank account.
Oh good it’s voice controlled. Because that technology works amazingly all the time.
How does the success rate compare
