Da Vinci Code: First Autonomous Robot Surgery Achieved in Pig Cadavers While slower than a human, the learning-based robot performed gall bladder removal (cholecystectomy) with smoother, shorter trajectories without fail, Eight operations on eight varying sets of pig gallbladders and livers removed from animals were performed with a 100% success rate. The robot managed to successfully undertake 17 tasks, each lasting minutes. This included identifying ducts and arteries, grabbing them precisely, strategically placing clips, as well as severing parts with scissors., The SRT-H robot was trained via an AI framework known as language-guided imitation learning, using videos of surgeons performing gallbladder removal surgeries on pig cadavers, the researchers , The Surgical Robot Transformer-Hierarchy performing a gallbladder surgery without the aid of a human (Juo-Tung Chen/Johns Hopkins University) (CN) — For the very first time, a robot has performed surgery without the help of a human, successfully removing a gallbladder from a dead pig at Johns Hopkins University., An autonomous surgical robot developed by researchers at Johns Hopkins University, working with colleagues from Stanford and Columbia, has successfully completed gallbladder removal on pig tissue without human intervention. The study, published in Science Robotics on 9 July, reports that the system—called Surgical Ro.., .