Would you be happy to be operated on by a surgical robot controlled by AI? | ITV News

Would you be happy to be operated on by a surgical robot, being controlled solely by artificial intelligence (AI)?

Or, how would you feel being stitched up by a robot, which is remotely operated by a surgeon on a different continent?

These are just some of the questions that a new robotic surgery framework, led by scientists from University College London, is aiming to solve.

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