{"id":217754,"date":"2025-07-13T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T15:10:39","slug":"humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages","title":{"rendered":"Humanoid robots in the operating room could address surgery delays and staff shortages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanoid-robots-in-the-operating-room-could-address-surgery-delays-and-staff-shortages.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burned out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get canceled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That\u2019s the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.adt0684\" target=\"_blank\">perspective piece<\/a> in Science Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/surgical+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">surgical robots<\/a> are costly pieces of equipment designed for specialized tasks and can only be operated by highly trained physicians. However, this model doesn\u2019t scale.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the drastic improvements in artificial intelligence and autonomy for industrial and <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/humanoid+robots\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">humanoid robots<\/a> in the past year, these improvements haven\u2019t translated to surgical robots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burned out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get canceled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That\u2019s the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a perspective piece in Science Robotics. Today\u2019s surgical robots are costly pieces of equipment designed for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}