Humanoid robots perform first teleoperated surgery on live pigs

UC San Diego researchers used teleoperated Unitree G1 humanoid robots to remove gallbladders from live pigs in a world-first preclinical trial. Surgeons controlled the robots remotely. The study was published in Nature.
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