{"id":218407,"date":"2025-07-21T19:05:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/autonomous-gallbladder-removal-robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help"},"modified":"2025-07-21T19:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T00:05:39","slug":"autonomous-gallbladder-removal-robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/autonomous-gallbladder-removal-robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help","title":{"rendered":"Autonomous gallbladder removal: Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/autonomous-gallbladder-removal-robot-performs-first-realistic-surgery-without-human-help3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team\u2014like a novice surgeon working with a mentor.<\/p>\n<p>The robot performed unflappably across trials and with the expertise of a skilled human surgeon, even during unexpected scenarios typical in real-life medical emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>The work, led by Johns Hopkins University researchers, is a transformative advancement in surgical robotics, where robots can perform with both mechanical precision and human-like adaptability and understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robot trained on videos of surgeries performed a lengthy phase of a gallbladder removal without human help. The robot operated for the first time on a lifelike patient, and during the operation, responded to and learned from voice commands from the team\u2014like a novice surgeon working with a mentor. The robot performed unflappably across [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218407","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\/218407","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}