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Apr 25, 2019

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

In a world first, surgeons just used a self-navigating surgery robot in an experimental surgery — training a robotic catheter to find its way to a leaky valve in a pig’s heart.

The new robot, described in research published in the journal Science Robotics on Wednesday, marks the beginning of the transition from robotic surgical tools to true robot-assisted surgeries, where autonomous devices can actually take the load off of overburdened human doctors.

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