Humanoid Robots Perform First Surgery on a Living Organism

According to Forbes, two humanoid robots performed a laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a living pig. The robots were fully teleoperated by a trained surgeon.

For surgeons and developers of surgical-assistance equipment, the significance is that two humanoid robots handled several steps of a laparoscopic cholecystectomy, including holding tissue, dissecting it, applying clips and lifting the gallbladder from the liver bed. However, the procedure was performed on a pig and, Forbes reported, was fully teleoperated by a trained surgeon. It was not autonomous surgery, but offers a way to assess which steps can be performed remotely using humanoid robots.