Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2024
For the first time in decades of robots helping perform surgeries, researchers have trained the technology to learn from videos and self-correct, according to a Dec. 30 report from The Washington Post.
A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and Stanford (Calif.) University led this effort. The videos featured other surgical robots performing tasks on practice suture pads. The robots were then tested to perform the same procedure in pork or chicken, according to the Post.
By teaching robots to imitate videos, there should be less effort required to program surgical robots, the researchers said. Also, the trained robots fixed mistakes, such as dropping a needle, without needing prompting.
Nearly four decades after the...
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