World's 1st - Humanoids in the OR
It is most impressive that Michael Yip's group at US San Diego managed to bring 2 Unitree G1 humanoids to the OR and provide a meaningful interface for teleoperation - published in Nature. "For the first time, two teleoperated humanoid robots have been used to complete two surgeries during a preclinical trial, researchers report in the July 8 issue of the journal Nature. The work is the result of a collaboration between a team of engineers and a team of surgeons at the University of California San Diego. In one surgery, a human-robot team made up of a humanoid robot and a human surgeon acting as an assistant successfully performed a gallbladder removal. A second successful surgery was performed by two humanoid robots working side by side in a robot-robot team. Both procedures were performed on large non-primate mammals. The proof-of-concept experiment is a first step toward introducing humanoid robots in the operating room, researchers said. These robots could f...
