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Final Blog Post                                                      “What are the applications of surgical robots today and are they more efficient than human surgeons?” This was the main question that made me choose this as my topic for this project. I wanted to learn more about the safety, advantages / disadvantages, as well as the future of surgical robots. Are they hurting or helping the medical field? My research started off with me discovering the “da Vinci Surgical System” which is a robotic surgical system developed by the American company Intuitive Surgical. This system was first introduced in 2000 after it was approved by the FDA. It was originally designed to facilitate complex surgery using a minimally invasive approach. This surgical system is the most commonly used robotic surgical system in the world having 3,803 units worldwide. 2501 of these units are in the United States alone and more hospitals are continuing to implement them in their arsenal. The sy
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Research Proposal I would like to explore the potential of artificial intelligence and its application to generating surgical robots. These robots will not actually do the surgeries themselves but will aid the surgeons in minimally invasive operations which will give the operators a greater control and focus that would not be possible by hand. Specifically, I want to look into the data to see if these robot-assisted surgeries will eventually develop into the robots completing the surgery themselves. Going further on the topic of robots that will complete the surgery themselves, I want to answer the question, "Would you let a robot perform your surgery by itself?" I want to look into the trustworthiness of current robots that complete surgeries and if there is high potential for error that could lead to critically harming outcomes.
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