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A robot just performed fully autonomous surgery on a live patient for the first time (bgr.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Perceptive announced it performed the world's first fully automated dental procedure using a robot. The system integrates AI, 3D imaging, and robotics, enabling tasks like crown placements in just 15 minutes. Perceptive claims their robotic dentist can diagnose and plan treatments using a 3D volumetric data procedure and an optical coherence technology (OCT) scan. Perceptive's CEO, Chris Ciriello, mentioned that FDA approval could take up to five years.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Perceptive announced a few days ago that it performed the world’s first fully automated dental procedure with the help of a robot.

Yeah, but what procedure?

I'm guessing a basic cleaning since they didn't say what kind.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I imagine they started simple!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Seems like a stretch to call that a surgery

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

The dentist: https://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/robot-arm.gif

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The only surgical robot I've seen used (at the 4 hospitals I've worked at) is the davinci, by Intuitive. None of those hospitals actually own the robot - it's like a permanent rental.

They're connected to the internet and send every single input to Intuitive - supposedly so they can assist better with telephone service when something fucks up.

100% guarantee they're using that data to train machine learning with the end-goal of being able to just hit a "cholecystectomy" button and then sit and watch the robot do the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can't go wrong. Nope, this is without risk and amazing!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Doesn’t have to be without risk - just has to have the same risk. Plenty of risk in regular dentistry