medical technology

London surgeons perform world’s first AI-guided brain tumor removal

A 48-year-old British man has become the first patient in the world to undergo brain surgery guided by real-time artificial intelligence, in a procedure that saved his eyesight and marks a new frontier for the technology in the operating theater.

Neuralink shows paralyzed patients steering wheelchairs with their thoughts

Neuralink released footage on July 23 showing paralyzed clinical trial participants controlling powered wheelchairs using only their thoughts, marking a new capability for the company's brain-computer interface technology.

Humanoid robots complete surgery in world first

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have used teleoperated humanoid robots to perform live surgery for the first time, publishing their findings in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The preclinical trial demonstrated two successful procedures on large non-primate…