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Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes (theguardian.com)
From a report: It is the most exacting of surgical skills: tying a knot deep inside a patient's abdomen, pivoting long graspers through keyhole incisions with no direct view of the thread. Trainee surgeons typically require 60 to 80 hours of practice, but in a mock-up operating theatre outside Cambridge, a non-medic with just a few hours of experience is expertly wielding a hook-shaped needle -- in this case stitching a square of pink sponge rather than an artery or appendix.
The feat is performed with the assistance of Versius, the world's smallest surgical robot, which could be used in NHS operating theatres for the first time later this year if approved for clinical use. Versius is one of a handful of advanced surgical robots that are predicted to transform the way operations are performed by allowing tens or hundreds of thousands more surgeries each year to be carried out as keyhole procedures. The Versius robot cuts down the time required to learn to tie a surgical knot from more than 100 training sessions, when using traditional manual tools, to just half an hour, according to Slack.
The feat is performed with the assistance of Versius, the world's smallest surgical robot, which could be used in NHS operating theatres for the first time later this year if approved for clinical use. Versius is one of a handful of advanced surgical robots that are predicted to transform the way operations are performed by allowing tens or hundreds of thousands more surgeries each year to be carried out as keyhole procedures. The Versius robot cuts down the time required to learn to tie a surgical knot from more than 100 training sessions, when using traditional manual tools, to just half an hour, according to Slack.
That didn't bother me as much as reducing 80 sessions down to 30 minutes: How to compare two numbers when they measure different things?
Slashdot is apparently not a tech-oriented website.
They used to have eighty 20sec sessions. Now they need 30min, but we sold them a new bit of hardware so that's the important bit.
Right on! I always do the same thing at restaurants. Chefs are just as arrogant! For example: I'll order the lasagna and send along a print-out of my favorite version from allrecipes.com. Inevitably, I'm informed that the pretentious Italians in the back refuse to even look at it!
Bring on the robot chefs! Knock these arrogant motherfuckers down a peg!