https://it-news.uk/tags/healthcare/ Recent content in Healthcare on IT News Hugo en-us Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/humanoid-robot-remote-surgery-live-animal-world-first/ Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0800 https://it-news.uk/posts/humanoid-robot-remote-surgery-live-animal-world-first/ <p>Two humanoid robots stood next to an operating table this week. They weren&rsquo;t folding laundry or running a factory line. They were holding scalpels.</p> <p>A team of engineers and surgeons at the University of California San Diego used two off-the-shelf Unitree G1 humanoid robots to perform gallbladder removal surgeries on live, large non-primate mammals. In one procedure, a surgeon worked alongside a single robot. In the other, a surgeon sat at a console and controlled both robots remotely — with no one touching the patient directly. The results were published July 8 in <em>Nature</em>.</p>