May 4, 2016
ABOVE AVERAGE IS OVER:
Robots Stake Their Claim in the Operating Room (Dennis Thompson, May 4, 2016, HealthDay News)
A surgical robot outperformed human surgeons in stitching the small intestines of pigs back together, researchers report.Without any direct human interaction, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) reconnected the intestines with sutures that proved more accurate, evenly spaced and durable than those created by human hands, the machine's developers said.
One of the quaint things about intellectuals is their naive belief that we grunts are all replaceable but they and their peer groups are not.
Posted by Orrin Judd at May 4, 2016 3:51 PM