Robotic surgeons are coming to a hospital near you
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
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Once the stuff of science fiction, robotic surgery is now used in hospitals across the world for a wide variety of procedures. Across several common procedures, some research has found that robotic surgery can improve outcomes in areas such blood loss, complications and recovery times, over open and some laparoscopic surgeries.
Robotic procedures have been game changers in minimally invasive care, and new surgical systems have been crucial. In robotic surgery, a specially trained surgeon uses advanced medical technology to streamline the surgical process. The goal is to improve safety, reduce complications, and improve patient outcomes. By reducing surgical trauma and increasing precision, this approach can help pave the way for more predictable, reproducible results.
Although robotic surgery has made impressive advances over the past two decades, there is much more to be done. As minimally invasive care continues to advance, researchers are finding new ways to help surgeons do more for patients.
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This video was created in partnership with Intuitive Surgical.
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This feels like an ad more than actual information
What information are you looking for?
@@jaxstax2406 Well for example - show us the actual visionaries behind da Vinci project. No offence to them, but the doctors and patients we've seen here are only end users of the product, not the visionaries.
@@nooz1394 wouldn't that seem more like an advertisement? The inventors of the Da Vinci machine and other alternative robotic surgery machines are personally invested in the success of their product. If a robotic surgery machine was an ineffective product they would be the last people to tell you so.
@@jaxstax2406 Does every interview with - let's say - Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the internet) feels like advertisement for the internet to you? If no, then it means you can talk to inventors of a given thing without making the interview look like an ad.
Exactly
You are discussing it's impact but not the topic itself
I LOVE THIS CHANNELLLLLLL
Rest in ease to the doctor's who are close to lose their jobs.....
This was some nutritious information. Thanks
Why there is no male surgeons present in this video?
I actually worked as an intern at a Polish company that works on a similar robot, Robin Heart. It is really cool.
Yeah so are the names.
You all got this human hands only for me.
Great work thank yoU
I really think this should be the way most hospitals take on surgeries. These inventions are utterly amazing. You can be so much more precise than before and I'd much rather see how the medical field can evolve from here rather than old school methods. (BTW, the goal shouldn't be to push a patient to feel guilty if they need some assistance with pain relief, I feel our society is way too quick to stigmatize someone who is totally not someone that has or will have a substance issue. But rather they are just a regular human that feels discomfort like normal people and those people deserve to not feel guilt over them needing just some help with temp pain relief. Just saying. )
You know absolutely nothing about surgery stop basing such a claim on a hunch
This is not new. LOL we have been using these systems for over 20 years. They do get incrementally better. But otherwise this tool has been in the tool box for a long time.
That has been one non-stop commercial. Also clearly sponsored. How come you don't have to declare that
Oh, it just says so right in the video details. How come you don't have to declare so in the video!
Simply another tool. Outcome still highly dependent on application.
Getting serious Admech vibes here 😏
** Waiting for reenactment of Sam Raimi's scene with Doc Oc from "Spider-man 2" **
I’ve had several of these surgeries for severe extrapelvic endometriosis . 6 or 7 at this point. Pretty cool stuff
Here’s a playlist of the second to last one WARNING GRAPHIC ua-cam.com/play/PL7iMiWjKZpzpBGb-oBOJhyB8pWkaefc1T.html
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@@freethink ikr. I’m so glad he gave me the video 😊
How is this robotics? There is no automation. It is simply extending the motion and vision of the surgeon. This is just a fancy scalpel.
Robotics and automation aren't necessarily interchangeable. By definition, robotics are machines designed to help and assist humans. Here, the surgical robots provide end-effector control which requires a lot of consideration from inverse kinematics, motor control, reducing clearance to ensure accuracy, etc. Sometimes they include haptic feedback for surgeons or real-time vision for closed-surgeries with technologies like optical tracking. Some parts of the procedure could be automated theoretically but its safer for surgeons to have full control since they can make adjustments if something unexpected happens which an algorithm likely cannot do at the moment. That is why robot-assisted surgeries are accepted rather than a fully autonomous robot performing surgery. Not to mention the black box problem inherent with ML programs.
I've worked in a team developing a parallel surgical robot in my undergrad so I can definitely say there are so many considerations from limiting x-ray exposure to reducing surgery time. It is an extremely multidisciplinary area that is needed to provide the accuracy and forces that humans cannot provide on their own. Enabling closed surgeries itself is amazing as that reduces the risk of infection and malalignment of bones. Reducing these achievements to just being a fancy scalpel completely underestimates the capacity we have attained to help people and reduce the need for reoperation and reduce risks of infection and death
@@Soma2501 Fancy does not imply simple, in fact quite the opposite - it is fancy (i.e. complicated). However, there is no robotics since there is no autonomy. It is mechanized, but not robotic. This would be like saying that a farm harvesting combine is a robot when it is not. It is a machine, a highly automated machine but still a machine with no autonomy and hence not robotic. The continued misuse of the term is what contributes to slow adoption of such technologies. Stop mis-using the term and you will find that acceptance will increase. To reiterate, the surgeon is still in full control and there is no robot involved since it is not a robot. Call it machine assisted surgery - anything but a robot.
@@Obscurai I understand the frustration since the colloquial definition includes both autonomous and semi-autonomous. Either way, I was talking about surgical robots in general rather than the Da Vinci specifically which may be less autonomous than the ones I'm familiar with. The Da Vinci, at the very least, is a serial manipulator and has some other features that mechanical robots generally have such as actuation, vision/sensing, etc.
The tricky part is the control system in these applications that can have varying autonomy such as making it more difficult for surgeons to make abrupt movements, being more supervisory where the robot operates but the surgeon can overtake control, having preset path planing motion on top of normal control, etc. Is it only considered a robot when you use the automated features or is it always considered a robot by having those automated features available? What about those constraints on motion from AI that guide the surgeon? For this reason, I'm not very keen on getting caught up in definitions
@@Soma2501 Many tools have automated functionality but that does not make them robots. For example, a car may have automated lane keep assist, automatic emergency braking, anti-lock brakes and traction control but that does not make it robot. The definition of robot is important as more and more actions in everyday life are automated and the general public and specifically technical practitioners need to understand the difference. That is, one needs to be concerned with clear and robust definition going forward. In this specific use case, the definition is what is hurting your adoption.
The distinction for a robot is not between having automation or not, but rather the perception of autonomy. In very few cases have there ever been any machines that exhibit any degree of autonomy and hence could be labelled robots. For example, car manufacturing uses robots but they are really just fancy actuators with some vision to stop accidents.
The transitional phase between partial and full autonomy can be confusing, but it is important to recognize that the definition of robotic is always shifting toward greater autonomy and cannot rest on an 19th century definition of automation. Otherwise, everything we have will be a robot soon and everyone will be fearful of these "robots".
Wait so the doctors are still the ones doing the surgery. I thought they do it in the beginning to train the robot until it knows in what situation to do what specific thing. That would probably be smarter.
You don’t have any knowledge on how surgeries work, do you?
and at the end ai will replace the doctor
Replace everyone
This kind of surgery is wrong. Human error is way better than engineering failure. You can always get skillful but robotic aids wont help someone grow or have proper experience. This is literally Freethink advertising this kind of surgery instead of covering pros an cons.
Engineering failure is human error. I do agree that using robotic-assisted surgery for everything doesn't make sense but it is a major improvement in results for some procedures especially involving orthopedics where huge forces and accuracy may be needed.