Intuitive’s Da Vinci System is essentially four robotic arms. Here are seven medical robots helping humans heal-or about to-even if they haven’t taken the Hippocratic oath. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University and director of the Georgia Center for Medical Robotics. “Surgical robots have made great inroads into the operating room over more than two decades and the trend is likely to continue in the years to come,” said Jaydev Desai, a professor in the Wallace H. And, in fact, there are already robots out there, in ORs all over the world, helping surgeons cut, stitch, and diagnose-and many more on the way. Mistakes or no mistakes, there are many procedures where a little help from an automaton is likely to have things go smoother, faster, and with a greater chance of success. Of course, talking about having the Terminator perform open heart surgery may not fly. So maybe it’s about time that robots, which have made such a difference in the worlds of manufacturing and amusement parks, took over from some of our most critical medical tasks. Misdiagnosis, wrong limbs amputated, patients catching fire, scalpels left in abdomens: Humans in the operating room have been making mistakes, and big ones, for a long time.
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