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, ...

Alan Zambeli-Ljepovic, MD, MHS, sits at the arcade-like console like a church organist. He places his feet on the machine’s pedals and slips the middle finger and thumb of each hand into delicate ...

It takes years of intense study and a steady hand for humans to perform surgery, but robots might have an easier time picking it up with today's AI technology. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train ...

In an advancement for minimally invasive care, a first-ever procedure using two separate surgery robots was successfully completed. A urologist at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...

In a “major leap” towards using more robots in operating theatres, this machine trained on the videos of surgeries was able to precisely work on removing a gallbladder. Juo-Tung Chen/PA Media/Johns ...

Robots trained by watching expert surgeons can now perform complex operations with little human help. This breakthrough is happening right now. For the first time, an autonomous surgical robot ...

Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy, SRT-H, performing gallbladder surgery on a pig cadaver. Credit: Juo-Tung Chen, Johns Hopkins University Almost a quarter of all surgeries in the United States use ...

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors, say researchers. A robot, trained for the first ...