Code & Cure
#59 - When a Humanoid Robot Removes A Gallbladder
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What happens when the “robot surgeon” stops being a fixed set of arms and starts walking into the operating room like a person? We explore a fresh research result where a teleoperated humanoid robot performs laparoscopic gallbladder surgery in pigs, and we get specific about what worked, what didn’t, and why the details matter more than the headlines. We start by defining what “humanoid”…