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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Automated surgery could be trialled on humans within a decade, say researchers, after an AI-trained robot armed with tools to cut, clip and grab soft tissue successfully removed pig gall bladders without human help. The robot surgeons were schooled on video footage of human medics conducting operations using organs taken from dead pigs. In an apparent research breakthrough, eight operations were conducted on pig organs with a 100% success rate by a team led by experts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the US.

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It opens up the possibility of replicating, en masse, the skills of the best surgeons in the world.

The technology allowing robots to handle complex soft tissues such as gallbladders, which release bile to aid digestion, is rooted in the same type of computerised neural networks that underpin widely used artificial intelligence tools such as Chat GPT or Google Gemini.

The surgical robots were slightly slower than human doctors but they were less jerky and plotted shorter trajectories between tasks. The robots were also able to repeatedly correct mistakes as they went along, asked for different tools and adapted to anatomical variation, according to a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Science Robotics.

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Coming from the "Open the pod bay doors, HAL" era, this really is interesting.
Not that I'm volunteering.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-09 01:59 PM | Reply

So... I take it ScottS survived the surgery.

What a relief!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-09 03:09 PM | Reply

Robots already perform surgery.

#3 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-09 05:03 PM | Reply

Yep the Da Vinci robot does a hysterectomy probably safer than a human can do it.
www.intuitive.com

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-09 05:05 PM | Reply

My good pal is a OB/GYN in Texas. I wish him well.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-09 05:10 PM | Reply

Hopefully, Mr Musk's xAI is not guiding the surgery.


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#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-09 08:50 PM | Reply

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