Robot surgeon STAR makes more accurate cuts and stitches than human surgeons

Briefing

October 14, 2017

Briefing	Robot Surgery – Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) beat professional surgeons in surgery experiments, able to make more precise cuts and cause less skin damage Experiment Goal – Robot and surgeons cut five centimeter straight lines on pig skin Test Results – Robot cut lines nearer to five centimeters, produced straighter lines, and resulted in less skin damage Other Experiments – Robot performed tumor cutting experiment with great accuracy, while 2016 experiment showed STAR able to sew pig intestine better than human surgeons Next Step – Train robot to cut tumors with complex 3D shapes
Accelerator	Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Robotics
Sector	Healthcare/Health Sciences
Source	Strickland, E., "In flesh-cutting task, autonomous robot surgeon beats human surgeons", IEEE Spectrum, http://spectrum.ieee.org; AcceleratingBiz analysis
Original Publication Date	October 13, 2017

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