Medical robots today are pretty dumb, typically acting as extensions of a surgeon's hands rather than taking over for them.

GUANGZHI WANG, Director, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tsinghua University; Chief Scientist, Sinovation Medical Technology Credit: Sinovation (Beijing) Medical Technology Co., Ltd.

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