Domo Arigato Dr. Roboto
05/20/2006 06:47 AM Filed in:
Medical
A Doctor can train a robot how to do heart
surgery, but can he
teach it how to love? Probably not, but I think the former is
pretty neat. An italian cardiologist created a robot that performed
an entire cardiovascular surgery unassisted.
The
50-minute surgery was done completely by the robot, without any
input from its flesh masters. The robot learned how to perform the
surgery by analyzing data from 10,000 real surgeries. "The robot
can now recognize the type of patient and the required method of
operating." Spoooooky. I can't wait for it to become sentient and
decide that a patient is not fit to live. It almost sounds like
Michael Crichton's next crappy screenplay.
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