Welcome to the future?
We’re
pretty good at using surgery to keep people alive. But at a certain
point, doctors are only human—hands shake, surgeons get tired, sutures
and stitches are done imperfectly, wrists can only twist so far. That’s
why, in recent years, surgeons have used robots more frequently, to
direct tools inside a patient more perfectly than a human could. Now
researchers have developed a robotic surgical tool that can operate
autonomously on soft tissue, according to a study published today in Science Translational Medicine.