{"id":25382,"date":"2016-05-05T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T17:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/unmanned-robot-surgery-works-in-pig-trial"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:00:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:00:41","slug":"unmanned-robot-surgery-works-in-pig-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/unmanned-robot-surgery-works-in-pig-trial","title":{"rendered":"Unmanned robot surgery works in pig trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/unmanned-robot-surgery-works-in-pig-trial.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the real challenge to ask the average parent or grandparent on the street: are you willing to allow your 5 year old child or grandchild to have a brain tumor removed by an autonomous robot without any trained &amp; experienced surgeon or nurse supervision?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An unmanned robot has been used to stitch together a pig\u2019s bowel, moving science a step closer to automated surgery, say experts.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike existing machines, the Star robot is self-controlled \u2014 it doesn\u2019t need to be guided by a surgeon\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n<p>In tests on pigs, it at least matched trained doctors at mending cut bowel, Science Translational Medicine reports.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-36190411\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-36190411<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the real challenge to ask the average parent or grandparent on the street: are you willing to allow your 5 year old child or grandchild to have a brain tumor removed by an autonomous robot without any trained &amp; experienced surgeon or nurse supervision? An unmanned robot has been used to stitch together [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382","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\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67569,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25382\/revisions\/67569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}