Medscape August 28, 2025
The machines continue to rise.
Researchers used artificial intelligence (AI) to train a robotic program to do parts of a gallbladder removal surgery, or a cholecystectomy. The robotic surgeon successfully performed its surgical tasks on eight pig cadavers, according to a new study published in Science Robotics.
Gallbladder surgery was the first to be performed fully laparoscopically — meaning using a thin, flexible tube with a camera and a light at the end along with other small instruments inserted through several small cuts — back in 1985. More than 700,000 of these procedures are performed each year in the US.
“So to be able to automate such surgery that everybody knows, I thought could be surprising,” said lead author Ji...
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