Robotic Surgery Just Got More Autonomous *free* (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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Robotic Surgery Just Got More Autonomous *free* (4 of 4)

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Dr. Azad Shademan and Ryan Decker during supervised autonomous in-vivo bowel anastomosis performed by the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the May 4, 2016 issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by A. Shademan at Children's National Health System in Washington, DC, and colleagues was titled, "Supervised autonomous robotic soft tissue surgery."

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Axel Krieger

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