How would you feel about a robot performing major surgery on you?
2019 has seen a boom in the use of cutting edge robotic technology and there is more to come.
Evidence suggests robotic surgery can be less invasive and improve recovery time for patients.
That could be good news with ever growing demand on health services.
At the Golden Jubilee Hospital in Clydebank, I watch an operation taking place with three robotic arms operating on a patient where a surgeon's hands would normally be.
The robotic arms are seeing, feeling and manipulating with incredible precision.
In this case, they are removing the patient's thymus gland from between the lungs.
The surgical robot takes this operation a step beyond traditional keyhole surgery.
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(Score: 5, Informative) by ElizabethGreene on Friday December 13 2019, @04:43AM (6 children)
Robotic surgery is performed by a surgeon using the robot as a tool. Saying the robot is performing the surgery is like saying a Laproscope is performing a surgery.
The car and the driver win the race together, not individually.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @05:32AM (5 children)
Precisely. It is still interesting to see how far they can push it. I remember years ago when they were talking about doing this remotely.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Friday December 13 2019, @06:29AM (3 children)
(snip) Oops! Sorry, lag!
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday December 13 2019, @07:15AM (2 children)
FTFY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @12:41PM
You both got it. The Internet was found to be too unreliable for that type of service. Who'd have thunk it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 15 2019, @12:14AM
(snip) Oh no! "Installing Windows Updates, please reboot to continue"
(Score: 2) by quietus on Saturday December 14 2019, @09:00AM
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday December 13 2019, @09:41AM (1 child)
Bots are routinely assembled by little Chinese hands paid 2$/h and nobody bats an eye
A bot makes minor adjustments to a meatbag and everybody lose their minds.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 13 2019, @06:39PM
> Bots are routinely assembled...
No fair, you bots are made from interchangeable parts--tolerances, press fits, go/no-go gauges, all that good stuff worked out during the Industrial Revolution and then made mainstream by Henry Ford. Us meatbags are still in the pre-mass production era where every snowflake is a little different.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 13 2019, @03:51PM
Yeah, I caught that.
What if the patient keeps his thymus behind one of his kidneys? Are the robots going to figure that out, on their own?