The Gardian reported on the successful operation of a robot surgeon on pig organs

A robot surgeon trained in artificial intelligence (AI) has successfully performed eight operations on the organs of a dead pig without human help. This was reported on July 10 by The Guardian newspaper, citing experts from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the United States.

"An AI—trained robot armed with tools for cutting, clamping and grabbing soft tissues has successfully removed a pig's gallbladder without human help," the newspaper reported.

It is noted that such robots work faster and more accurately than humans, with less damage to the surrounding structures of the patient's body. However, according to John McGrath, head of the robotics committee of the National Health Service of Great Britain, autonomous surgery is still far from clinical deployment, because the ability of robots to respond to patient movement and breathing, blood loss and other factors independent of the robot itself has not yet been tested.

Despite this, the Royal College of Surgeons in the UK called this area of robot use promising, and global researchers suggested that automated surgery could be tested on humans within a decade.

"People will stop performing routine operations and start training robotic assistants"

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Earlier, on May 22, Chinese scientists developed a robot for implanting implants in the brain. Specialists from the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a flexible robot called CyberSense, which is capable of implanting ultrathin microelectrodes into the brain and represents a technological breakthrough in the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI).