Elon Says I'll Be Replaced by a Robot in 3 Years. He's Wrong — Here's Why.
Elon Musk says that within a few years robots will perform all of our surgery — and do it better than any human surgeon alive. As a surgeon who uses computer-assisted navigation in his own operating room, Dr. Schultz explains exactly why that's wrong: the part today's surgical robots actually handle is one of the easiest steps of a knee replacement — the bone cuts we trust to a first-year resident — while the hard part is everything the technology can't see.
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