{"id":89953,"date":"2019-04-25T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/surgeons-just-sent-a-tiny-autonomous-bot-into-a-heart-valve"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:23:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T17:23:46","slug":"surgeons-just-sent-a-tiny-autonomous-bot-into-a-heart-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/surgeons-just-sent-a-tiny-autonomous-bot-into-a-heart-valve","title":{"rendered":"Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/surgeons-just-sent-a-tiny-autonomous-bot-into-a-heart-valve2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a world first, surgeons just used a self-navigating surgery robot in an experimental surgery \u2014 training a robotic catheter to find its way to a leaky valve in a pig\u2019s heart.<\/p>\n<p>The new robot, <a href=\"https:\/\/robotics.sciencemag.org\/content\/4\/29\/eaaw1977\">described in research<\/a> published in the journal <em>Science Robotics<\/em> on Wednesday, marks the beginning of the transition from <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/robot-surgeons-sense-touch\">robotic surgical tools<\/a> to true robot-assisted surgeries, where autonomous devices can actually take the load off of overburdened human doctors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/doctors-autonomous-surgery-robot-heart\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world first, surgeons just used a self-navigating surgery robot in an experimental surgery \u2014 training a robotic catheter to find its way to a leaky valve in a pig\u2019s heart. The new robot, described in research published in the journal Science Robotics on Wednesday, marks the beginning of the transition from robotic surgical [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89953","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\/89953","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}