{"id":215017,"date":"2025-09-10T08:18:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215017\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T08:18:14","slug":"can-chinas-ai-powered-surgical-robots-cut-wait-times-for-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/215017\/","title":{"rendered":"Can China\u2019s AI-powered surgical robots cut wait times for operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/artificial-intelligence?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Artificial intelligence<\/a>-powered <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/robotics?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">surgical robots<\/a> are progressing towards becoming a surgeon\u2019s third hand, potentially easing pressure on medical resources, according to a Chinese researcher who leads a team that completed the world\u2019s first multitask surgical automation tests on a live animal.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The team led by the Chinese University of Hong Kong developed an AI system automating a robotic arm to help surgeons in routine tasks like retracting tissue, picking up gauze and clipping blood vessels.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The AI-automated arm acts as a third hand for surgeons, who control two other robotic arms from a control console where they view live endoscopic footage during operations.<\/p>\n<p>Future work involves ensuring the safety and accuracy of AI co-pilots in robotic surgery, encouraging more researchers to advance the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/topics\/technology?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> for clinical applications and promoting regulation of AI use in surgical settings, Dou Qi of CUHK\u2019s department of computer science and engineering told the Post.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dou Qi of CUHK\u2019s computer sciences and engineering department led the research paper. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/e3465c79-61b5-4c9d-950c-504245d06212_923ffda7.jpg\" title=\"Dou Qi of CUHK\u2019s computer sciences and engineering department led the research paper. Photo: Handout\"\/>Dou Qi of CUHK\u2019s computer sciences and engineering department led the research paper. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers reported their work in an article published in the peer-reviewed journal Science Robotics in July, in a special issue on autonomy and AI in medical robots.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe trend of an ageing population further brings growing clinical demand, placing strain on surgeons who must manage more patients,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence-powered surgical robots are progressing towards becoming a surgeon\u2019s third hand, potentially easing pressure on medical resources,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":215018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,117502,78199,117505,738,74,117497,117500,117503,117501,8464,54249,117499,117498,117504,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-215017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-co-pilots","10":"tag-ai-system","11":"tag-ai-powered-surgical-robots","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-china","14":"tag-chinese-university-of-hong-kong","15":"tag-cornerstone-robotics","16":"tag-cuhk","17":"tag-dou-qi","18":"tag-hong-kong","19":"tag-johns-hopkins-university","20":"tag-science-robotics","21":"tag-surgical-robots","22":"tag-surgical-settings","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115179022123031834","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}