{"id":245449,"date":"2026-10-15T21:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/revealed-uks-first-operation-using-a-robot-that-can-feel"},"modified":"2026-10-15T21:14:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T02:14:51","slug":"revealed-uks-first-operation-using-a-robot-that-can-feel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/revealed-uks-first-operation-using-a-robot-that-can-feel","title":{"rendered":"Revealed: UK\u2019s first operation using a robot that can \u2018feel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/revealed-uks-first-operation-using-a-robot-that-can-feel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But that was not specifically why we were here. It was, instead, because the patient was about to become the first in the UK to have the surgery using a robotic-assisted technology.<\/p>\n<p>Called Force Feedback, it is attached to the da Vinci 5 robotic system, allowing the surgeon for the first time to feel the pressure they are exerting as they push and pull on the patient\u2019s tissue inside their body.<\/p>\n<p>Early results from the US show it\u2019s making surgery more gentle and recovery time faster \u2014 and it\u2019s even improving the time the patient is in the operating theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But that was not specifically why we were here. It was, instead, because the patient was about to become the first in the UK to have the surgery using a robotic-assisted technology. Called Force Feedback, it is attached to the da Vinci 5 robotic system, allowing the surgeon for the first time to feel the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245449","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\/245449","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}