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Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot

In experimental surgery on pig organs, the robot performed well.

Expert surgeons could operate on patients remotely, manipulating the robotic arms and their surgical tools based on a video feed from DaVinci’s built-in cameras and endoscopes. To improve on that, a team led by Axel Krieger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at John Hopkins University, built STAR: the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot. The explanation Intuitive Surgical leadership offered for restricting access to the kinematics data, according to Kim, was they were worried about the competition reverse-engineering the mechanics of their robot.

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