Humanoid Robots Perform First Surgery on a Live Animal

At UC San Diego's Center for the Future of Surgery, a surgeon tele-operated a Unitree G1 humanoid robot to remove a gallbladder from a live pig, while a second procedure used two robots working together. The robots' shoulder joints overheated and they could not be sterilized to operating room standards.

• The live-pig gallbladder removal used Unitree G1 humanoid robots at UC San Diego
• A second procedure was performed by two humanoid robots working together
• Robot arms are shorter than a human surgeon's and shoulder joints overheated
• The robots could not yet be sterilized to operating room standards