A robot has performed the world's first autonomous, soft-tissue surgery

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  1. Plazma Inferno!

    Plazma Inferno! Ding Ding Ding Ding Administrator

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    The surgical bot named STAR, or Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, just performed the world's first autonomous, soft-tissue surgery. STAR is the creation of a team of computer scientists and medical researchers led by Peter Kim, a biochemist at the Children's National Health System in Washington D.C. The machine performed several supervised (but unguided) surgical procedures in which it sutured together two severed segments of bowel intestine in living, anesthetized pigs.
    The operation is called intestinal anastomosis, which is used after a bowel segment needs to be removed. Not only did the pigs survive the successful operations, but STAR was found to have far outperformed manual open surgery, larposcopy surgery, and the next best robotic assisted surgery.

    http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a20718/first-autonomous-soft-tissue-surgery/
     
    Plazma Inferno!, May 5, 2016
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  3. Q-reeus

    Q-reeus Banned Valued Senior Member

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    Sooner or later, 'they' will decide the logical thing is to simply do away with problematic surgery-requiring meat-bags i.e. humans.
     
    Q-reeus, May 5, 2016
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