A surgical robot operating in a dead pig
A IA -guided robot successfully removed the gallbladder from a dead pig. It is the first realistic surgery done without human intervention.
One Robot first operated a realistic model of patient.
This unprecedented advance was announced in a study this Wednesday in Science Robotics.
Trained with surgeries videos, the robot proceeded to gallbladder removal from a dead pig without human help.
As it details, the robot was powered by an AI system identical to chatgtp, which was trained in 17 hours of video that encompasses 16,000 movements in operations by human surgeons.
In total, gallbladder surgery required 17 different tares. The robotic system carried out the operation eight times, obtaining 100% success in all as tarefas.
Although “it took longer to do the work than a human surgeon, the results were comparable,” says the statement.
Although the robot had 100%effectiveness, it took longer to do the work than a human surgeon and had to self-corrite six times. This may mean that a tweezers designed to grab an artery has failed to fix it to the first attempt.
“There were many cases where it had to self-corrite, but Even this was all totally autonomous“, Disse, in New Scientist, Axel KriegerMember of the Johns Hopkins University team in Maryland.
“He properly identified the initial error and was correcting himself.” The robot also had to ask one human to exchange one of his surgical instruments for another, which means that some level of human intervention was necessary.
There are now several challenges for the system to be used in clinical practice.
In New Scientist, Burning Rotrigue and Bayfrom the London Imperial College, who was not part of the investigation, said he was enthusiastic about the growing potential of robotic surgery, however, warns that, “For this to be safe in humans, regulation will have to follow the example, which remains a significant challenge in our sector.”
The next step is to let a robot operate autonomously on a living animal, where “breathing and bleeding can complicate things” – admits Krieger.
