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Tech News 1: Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help

Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2022 3:44 am
by bob_turner
A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human—a significant step in robotics toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) is described today in Science Robotics.

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