Humanoid Robot Participates in Real Surgery for First Time
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-07-10
A UC San Diego research team published a study in Nature demonstrating teleoperated humanoid robots performing real surgeries. In the experiments, two humanoid robots remotely controlled by human surgeons successfully completed procedures like laparoscopic cholecystectomy on pigs.
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