New artificial intelligence (AI) research brings digital health care a step closer toward fully autonomous robotic surgery. A recent landmark study led by Johns Hopkins University created an AI model with architecture similar to ChatGPT to guide a surgical robot to perform gallbladder removal in a realistic ex vivo setting without help from human doctors.

“Our method achieves a 100% success rate across eight different ex vivo gallbladders, operating fully autonomously without human intervention,” wrote study co-authors Ji Woong Kim, Juo-Tung Chen, Pascal Hansen, Lucy X. Shi, Antony Goldenberg, Samuel Schmidgall, Paul Maria Scheikl, Anton Deguet, Brandon M. White, De Ru Tsai, Richard Jaepyeong Cha, Jeffrey Jopling, Chelsea Finn, and Axel Krieger.

Surgical robotics is expected to reach a global market size of roughly USD $188.8 billion by 2032 with a 9% compound annual........

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