Engineers at Johns Hopkins University are developing a surgical robot that could perform simple procedures such as sewing together arteries or intestines without guidance from surgeons, unlike current surgical assistant robots.
Official figures show a record 6.07million patients are now on NHS waiting lists for operations. And an unprecedented 20,000 people are having to endure waits of more than two years.
Surgery is difficult and complicated even under ideal circumstances. There’s a reason you have to train so long to become a surgeon. Then there are times when the body conspires to ratchet the difficulty up a few notches. Maybe the area that needs operating is incredibly small or needs a hand more delicate than human surgeons are capable of offering. Maybe the operation is going to be tens of hours long and there’s a danger that fatigue will set in.
Way back in the before times of 2018, Ayanna Howard joined us onstage at our Robotics event to discuss human-robotic interactions, along with UC Santa Cruz’s Leila Takayama and Veo Robotics’ Patrick Sobalvarro. Plenty has changed since then — both for Howard and, you know, just in the world, generally — so it seems as […]
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