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HUMANOID ROBOTS CONTROLLED BY SURGEONS DID WORLD-FIRST OPERATION ON LIVE PIGS

arstechnica.com7 min read

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Humanoid robots controlled by skilled human surgeons recently removed the gallbladders from living pigs in an unprecedented medical experiment. The approach takes a fraction of the space needed in an operating room and is easy to deploy. The experiment used a Unitree G1 humanoid robot, which has a starting price of $13,500. Unitree's humanoid robots teleoperated by surgeons are still very much in the experimental phase, but the approach could eventually be used in smaller hospitals and clinics that lack the resources to install expensive surgical robots.