First Robotic laproscopic surgery successful without human help

Published On 2022-02-01 10:53 GMT | Update On 2022-02-01 10:53 GMT

Robotics has grown tremendously in medicinal fields, machines have successfully performed several techniques. 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.

The STAR performed the procedure in four animals and it produced significantly better results than humans performing the same procedure," said senior author Axel Krieger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins' Whiting School of Engineering.

The robot excelled at intestinal anastomosis, a procedure that requires a high level of repetitive motion and precision. Connecting two ends of an intestine is arguably the most challenging step in gastrointestinal surgery, requiring a surgeon to suture with high accuracy and consistency. Even the slightest hand tremor or misplaced stitch can result in a leak that could have catastrophic complications for the patient.

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First Robotic laproscopic surgery successful without human help

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