{"id":658,"date":"2020-06-18T21:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/?p=658"},"modified":"2020-06-18T21:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T16:15:50","slug":"will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/2020\/06\/18\/will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Will there be robot surgeons in the future?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span>\n<p>AI has made our lives easier by unburdening employees from doing a routine task and allowing them to concentrate on more complex work. But it is not just limited to doing paperwork, or handling redundant data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists <strong>taught a robot how to do sutures<\/strong>. They did so by feeding the robot 78 slowed down films related to medical procedures. The research included connecting a pair of automated pincers to the AI algorithm to use a needle and thread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The aim behind <strong>&#8220;imitation learning&#8221;<\/strong> was to train AI in a way similar to semi-autonomous cars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After analyzing the video and learning the motion, the researchers <strong>broke down the suturing task into programmable actions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Needle insertion<\/li><li>Needle extraction<\/li><li>Needle hand-off<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers claimed that this enabled Motion2Vec, their deep learning system, to guide the robot hands to stitch a fake wound with almost <strong>85% accuracy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This <strong>breakthrough <\/strong>could mean surgeons could focus on more complex procedures, while robots could perform these repetitive tasks under a surgeon&#8217;s supervision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current stitching system has a 9.4mm error rate; hence it is <strong>not ready for real patients<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#AIMonks #AI #Robots #Surgeons #Automation #Suture #ImitationLearning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span> AI has made our lives easier by unburdening employees from doing a routine task and allowing them to concentrate on more complex work. But it is not just limited to doing paperwork, or handling redundant data. Scientists taught a robot how to do sutures. They did so by feeding the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,61],"tags":[35,24,40,637,591,635,636],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-applications-and-use-cases","category-digital-transformation","tag-ai","tag-ai-monks","tag-automation","tag-imitation-learning","tag-robots","tag-surgeons","tag-suture"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",756,756,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",756,756,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",756,756,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"large":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",750,750,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",756,756,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez.jpg",756,756,false],"hestia-blog":["https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Will-there-be-robot-surgeons-in-the-future-rez-360x240.jpg",360,240,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"AI Bytes","author_link":"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/author\/aibytes_kashika\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/category\/daily-bytes\/applications-and-use-cases\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Applications and Use Cases<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/aimonks.com\/aibytes\/category\/daily-bytes\/digital-transformation\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Digital Transformation<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"Reading Time: &lt; 1 minutes AI has made our lives easier by unburdening employees from doing a routine task and allowing them to concentrate on more complex work. 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