The robot made incisions better than people.
Engineers at the University of Maryland have developed a robot that is able to make cuts more accurately and precisely than the real surgeons.
The study of the robot and people is carried out on tissues of pigs.
The robot is called Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, abbreviated as STAR. The results of this experiment were presented at a recent conference on robotics IROS 2017.
The experiments were conducted on the tissues of pigs. Making sure that the robot is able to perform precise incisions, Dr. Krieger and his colleagues put a robot against experienced surgeons. They were tasked to make a straight cut length of 5 cm on a pre-cut line. The grades were given based on deviations from the line and causing extra damage. STAR coped with the task better.
“I really believe that this is the future of surgery. I believe that this will happen first for small subfunctions surgery, and then it will be all the more difficult. It looks like Autonomous vehicles, where small Autonomous function slowly transformed into a more Autonomous. I absolutely trust the robot in relation to such transactions when they are fully tested and approved,” said study co-author Axel Krieger, associate Professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland.
It is noted that at the final stage of the experiment, the robot cut the “tumor” placed in pork fat. Moreover, STAR has made this a better person.
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