TL;DR
This paper reviews the current state and challenges of autonomous surgical robots, highlighting their potential to enhance precision, efficiency, and capabilities beyond human skills in medical procedures.
Contribution
It provides an overview of autonomous surgical robots in commercial and research contexts, discussing advancements and challenges in the field.
Findings
Autonomous robots improve surgical precision and efficiency.
Current systems face technical and regulatory challenges.
Autonomous surgery enables procedures beyond human skill.
Abstract
Autonomous surgery involves having surgical tasks performed by a robot operating under its own will, with partial or no human involvement. There are several important advantages of automation in surgery, which include increasing precision of care due to sub-millimeter robot control, real-time utilization of biosignals for interventional care, improvements to surgical efficiency and execution, and computer-aided guidance under various medical imaging and sensing modalities. While these methods may displace some tasks of surgical teams and individual surgeons, they also present new capabilities in interventions that are too difficult or go beyond the skills of a human. In this chapter, we provide an overview of robot autonomy in commercial use and in research, and present some of the challenges faced in developing autonomous surgical robots.
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Taxonomy
TopicsSurgical Simulation and Training · Anatomy and Medical Technology · Soft Robotics and Applications