All articles by Amit Thadani

Trust in the machine

Although AI diagnosis aids have made tangible differences to patient outcomes, recent technological developments in the operating room have focused more on manual dexterity than its mental equivalent. But, as deep learning gets wiser, it’s time to look at the limits and possibilities of our non-human assistants in the operating room. Mae Losasso considers what AI can and can’t do for surgeons with help from Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena, co-director of the Hamlyn Centre of Robotics at Imperial College London.