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The robot did something that previously took a very highly trained person to do. It's a huge accomplishment and not misleading at all. You may not have read th
by jonknee 11y ago
The robot did something that previously took a very highly trained person to do. It's a huge accomplishment and not misleading at all.
You may not have read the article because it explicitly mentions the system you linked to:
> The current state-of-the-art robot for soft tissue surgery is the da Vinci system from Intuitive Surgical, but it’s not automated at all. The da Vinci is a teleoperated system, in which the surgeon sits at a console and manipulates controls in dexterous maneuvers that are mimicked by tiny tools inside the patient’s body.
- tremon 11y agoI agree with the GP, calling this a surgeon is misleading and looking for hype. Yes, it's a great accomplishment. No, this is not a surgeon. You can start calling it a surgeon when it can autonomously perform an appendectomy, including handling common complications (excessive bleeding, situs inversus, etc) during surgery.