Currently, more than 44.5 million soft tissue surgeries are performed in the U.S. each year.
The robot did need a little help.
In about 40 percent of its trials, the researchers intervened to offer guidance of some kind.
Our innovation is really to make this more autonomous, so that you dont have to direct every motion.
They said the soft-tissue surgeries that could first be done autonomously include removals of the gallbladder and appendix.
With driverless cars coming into our lives, maybe one day surgical robots could take over human surgeons.
source: www.techworm.net
