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Did the robot open the patient? Did the robot locate and section the organ? This is a surgeon as a sewing machine is a tailor. It's a tool. To call it a surgeon is very misleading.

Look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Vinci_Surgical_System



The robot did something that previously took a very highly trained person to do. It's a huge accomplishment and not misleading at all.

You may not have read the article because it explicitly mentions the system you linked to:

> The current state-of-the-art robot for soft tissue surgery is the da Vinci system from Intuitive Surgical, but it’s not automated at all. The da Vinci is a teleoperated system, in which the surgeon sits at a console and manipulates controls in dexterous maneuvers that are mimicked by tiny tools inside the patient’s body.


I agree with the GP, calling this a surgeon is misleading and looking for hype. Yes, it's a great accomplishment. No, this is not a surgeon.

You can start calling it a surgeon when it can autonomously perform an appendectomy, including handling common complications (excessive bleeding, situs inversus, etc) during surgery.




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