Towards Autonomous Robots for Healthcare

Watch a 23-minute lecture from the Bookout Center symposium for Robotics, Imaging, and Digital Surgery where Professor Ron Alterovitz from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses groundbreaking developments in autonomous medical robots. Learn about the first medical robot capable of autonomously steering needles through living tissue while avoiding anatomical obstacles, specifically designed to improve lung cancer diagnosis and treatment. Explore the technical methods enabling autonomous features in medical robots and discover how these innovations achieve higher accuracy for enhanced patient care. Understand the potential impact of autonomous medical robots in healthcare, particularly in addressing lung cancer which affects over 120,000 Americans annually. Note that this educational content may contain graphic medical content.