Robots to the Rescue: THEY HAVEN'T SLICED OPEN ANY HUMANS YET, BUT AUTONOMOUS SURGEONS MIGHT BE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK

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IF A ROBOT SURGEON is treating you, your life is in danger. That's not due to any machine-borne malice, but because current research into autonomous surgery is focused on battlefield casualties barely clinging to life and astronauts injured on distant planets. To demonstrate how that research is progressing, Silicon Valley-based SRI International and the University of Cincinnati held a series of tests this past September that sound like a cross between a PR stunt and a B-movie: human doctors squaring off against a robotic surgeon aboard a nose-diving DC-9 aircraft.