Minute Insight: Can Robots Do Surgery Without Human Help?

Johns Hopkins researchers successfully and autonomously performed laparoscopic surgery on a pig using the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot.

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Autonomous surgery performed by robots is likely many years away from human applications, but a robot at Johns Hopkins University successfully performed intricate laparoscopic surgery on pig tissues.

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