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In case you hadn’t noticed, we live in a dangerous world. While our soft, fleshy selves are remarkably good at absorbing kinetic energy and healing the damage that results, there …read more Continue reading A Cut Above: Surgery in Space, Now and In the Future
It takes years of intense study and a steady hand for humans to perform surgery, but robots might have an easier time picking it up with today’s AI technology.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTags: Artificial Intelligence, Surgery, Surgica… Continue reading Robot learns to perform surgical tasks expertly just by watching videos
Doctors have successfully operated on a pig – from 9,300 km (5,780 miles) away. Using a video game controller, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopy on a pig in Hong Kong, paving the way for remote procedures in humans in areas wh… Continue reading Remote surgery performed on a pig 9,000 km away using a game controller
For babies born with a certain heart defect, implantation of a “shunt” is essential to their survival. A new type of shunt can be expanded using light, potentially eliminating the need for more heart surgeries that are currently needed to swap in large… Continue reading Light-activated implant could spare babies from multiple heart surgeries
A new medical 3D-printing method has been developed that takes its cues from the way tangles of worms interact in nature. The resultant material produced could patch up leaky heart parts or stabilize spinal discs, among other applications.Continue Read… Continue reading Worm blob inspires creation of internal medical Band-Aid
Nightmare fuel? Maybe – but in a historic moment for the dental profession, an AI-controlled autonomous robot has performed an entire procedure on a human patient for the first time, about eight times faster than a human dentist could do it.Continue Re… Continue reading Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world’s first human procedure
For the first time, the fully mechanical heart made by BiVACOR, which uses the same technology as high-speed rail lines, has been implanted inside a human being. The feat marks a major step in keeping people alive as they wait for heart transplants.Con… Continue reading Maglev titanium heart now whirs inside the chest of a live patient
Sometimes, a limb is damaged so badly that the only way to save the patient is to amputate it. Researchers have now found that humans aren’t the only species to …read more Continue reading Surgery — Not Just For Humans Anymore
Marvel’s “Bucky” Barnes, Mad Max: Fury Road’s Furiosa, and Gazelle from the Kingsman franchise. What do these fictional movie characters have in common? Bionic limbs they’re able to wield with great precision. Unfortunately, real life hasn’t caught up … Continue reading Nervous-system-driven prostheses give amputees greater control
It turns out that blasting people with shockwaves during open-heart surgery is a really good idea. That’s what researchers found who used the technique to reactivate heart cells and improve the post-op lives of patients in a groundbreaking study.Contin… Continue reading Shockwave-shooting ‘space hairdryer’ regrows heart tissue in patients