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Robotic surgery hits 'milestone' with autonomous gallbladder removal

MARYLAND, UNITED STATES, JUL 9 – The Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy completed eight autonomous gallbladder removals with 100% task success, adapting in real-time to anatomical variations, Johns Hopkins researchers reported.

  • Earlier this week at Johns Hopkins University, a robot autonomously performed a gallbladder removal with 100% accuracy, as detailed in Science Robotics.
  • Building on this milestone, the two-tier AI system SRT-H was trained on 17 hours of surgical videos with 16,000 human surgeon motions, enabling autonomous performance.
  • The robot completed 17 surgical steps across eight trials, autonomously self-correcting six times per case and responding to voice commands with expert-level precision.
  • Following this milestone, autonomous gallbladder removal achieves results comparable to expert surgeons, though some human intervention remains necessary for full clinical use.
  • Beyond lab tests, researchers aim to conduct live animal trials, requiring regulatory approval and expanding to more surgical procedures.
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TechXplore broke the news in on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
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