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Robots Are Starting to Make Decisions in the Operating Room
In a bright, high-tech operating room, a sleek robotic arm stands poised next to the operating table. The autonomous robot ...
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Surgical robot could sew you up better than a doctor
Children's National Medical Center and Johns Hopkins University recently tested a Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) arm during experimental bowel surgery on anesthetized pigs. The machine only ...
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The next time you go under the knife, there’s a good chance a robot will hold the scalpel
In another study, Krieger and team found that a Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR), which is designed for complex soft tissue surgeries, can actually outperform expert surgeons on some key metrics.
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Would You Be Okay Getting a Doctorless Surgery?
In early 2022, for example, researchers at Johns Hopkins University used a device called the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR for short) to sew two ends of severed intestine back together in an ...
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Robotic Surgery Just Got More Autonomous *free* (4 of 4) (IMAGE)
Dr. Azad Shademan and Ryan Decker during supervised autonomous in-vivo bowel anastomosis performed by the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR). This material relates to a paper that appeared in ...
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From teleoperation to autonomous robot-assisted microsurgery: A survey
This concept was further developed into the cooperatively controlled mode, in which the robot can assist the operator in manipulating tissue within ... ungrounded handheld smart surgical devices ...