A surgical robot operating on dead pig
Juo-Tung Chen/Johns Hopkins University
An AI-Powred Robot was able to remove a gallbladder from a dead pig in what scientists claim is the first realistic operation of a machine with almost no human intervention.
The robot is powered by a two-TIR AI system trained on 17 hours of video feature of 16,000 movements made in operations of human surgeons. When put to work, the first layer of the AI system sees video from an endoscope that monitors the operation and common language instructions, such as “Cut the second channel”, while the second AI layer transforms each instruction into three-dimenal tool movements.
In total, the gallbladder operation required 17 separate tasks. The robot system performed the operation eight times and achieved 100 percent success in all tasks.
“Current surgical robotics have made some procedures less invasive, but complication rats have not really fallen from previous laparoscopic [keyhole] surgery [by human surgeons]”Says team member Axel Krieger at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.” This made us investigate is the next generation of robot systems that can help patients and surgeons.
“The study really highlights the art of being possible with AI and surgical robotics,” says Danail Stoyanov at University College London. “Incredible progress in computer vision for surgical video with the availability of open robotic platforms for research makes it possible to demonstrate surgical automation.
But there are still many challenges to make the system practical in clinical use, outsiders out Stoyanov.
First, while the robot completed the task by 100 per. A hundred success, it had to self -correction six times per year. Case. For example, this may mean a Siver designed to fat an artery that lacks its grip on the first attempt.
“There were many cases that it had to self -correct, but it was all fully autonomous,” says Krieger. “It would properly identify the original error and then fix itself.” The robot also had to ask a human to change one of his surgical instruments to another, which means that a certain level of human intervention was needed.
Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena at Imperial College London is excited about the growing potential of robot surgery. “The future is light – and temptingly close,” he says. “Although to realize this safely in humans, regulation must follow follows, which reintroduces an open challenge in our sector.”
The next step, says Krieger is to let a robot work autonomously on live animals where breathing and bleeding can complicate things.
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