Beyond da Vinci: Why versatile humanoid robots are the next frontier in surgery
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Teleoperated humanoids successfully performing surgeries moves robotics from fixed-form surgical systems to more general-purpose platforms. Hospital operators and medtech vendors should start mapping which OR tasks could migrate to humanoids once reliability and regulation catch up.
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