Experimental surgery performed by AI-driven surgical robot
9 months ago
- #Medical Innovation
- #Robotics
- #AI Surgery
- Intuitive Surgical introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, enabling remote surgeries via robotic arms and video feeds.
- John Hopkins University researchers integrated a ChatGPT-like AI with a DaVinci robot to perform autonomous gallbladder-removal surgery.
- Previous autonomous surgical robots like STAR relied on pre-programmed actions and marked tissues, with limited adaptability.
- The new system, SRT-H (Surgical Robot Transformer), uses transformer models (similar to ChatGPT) for flexible, learning-based autonomous surgery.
- SRT-H features a high-level policy module for task planning and a low-level module for executing robotic arm movements.
- DaVinci robots are the industry standard for teleoperation surgeries, with over 10,000 units deployed globally.