Two Teleoperated Humanoid Robots Remove A Live Animal's Gallbladder At UCSD
The engineering and surgery teams published results in Nature on July 8, after two successful preclinical runs.
- Surgie stands 5 feet tall, weighs 60 pounds, remotely steered by a human surgeon's hands.
- Second run: two Surgies alone operated on a large non-primate mammal, no surgeon's hands inside.
- Dr. Shanglei Liu touted lower cost, smaller footprint, deployable to rural clinics, battlefields, even space.
Why it matters: Teleoperation does not put a surgeon in every village; it lets one surgeon's hands reach every village.
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