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PolychromeMan t1_j8ef1vz wrote

Reply to comment by greenmachine11235 in Medical robots assisting in surgery at PBGMC, surgeons reporting quicker recovery by darth_nadoma

I think over time, as the speed at which robots can make decisions and perform surgical tasks increases, they will get better and better. Being able to perform an operation in a few minutes rather than a couple of hours seems much less invasive for the patients body to deal with.

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HeartlessGoose t1_j8fhg0h wrote

I think you fundamentally misunderstand what the robot in the article is. It doesn’t make decisions or performs surgical tasks. It’s a mechanical arm attached to a bone saw that prevents the surgeons from straying outside of the predefined surgical field— like bowling with bumper rails.

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PolychromeMan t1_j8fm7oe wrote

oh sorry. You are correct. I remember articles from years ago that implied Mako robots did partial and full knee replacement surgery, not ASSISTED with that type of surgery.

(I still think robots that can perform misc surgery extremely quickly will help improve things, but that may be decades away, of course)

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SterlingVapor t1_j8g0j9u wrote

Hopefully not decades, it's less than 5 years away (and hopefully doesn't stay that way)

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Mecha_Goose t1_j8gey5t wrote

The trick is no one really wants to be the test subject of the beta version of that robot.

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