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The future of Surgery
- 20articles
- 2016first covered
- 25 Feb 2026latest update
- 4linked technologies
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- New AI imaging tech lets surgeons see through blood during surgeryAI and intelligence
- Elon Musk says in the future money will be irrelevant and work optionalOpinion
- Neuralink’s first brain implant patient is constantly multi-taskingBiotech and enhanced humans
- These brain navigating Bionaut micro robots could revolutionise neurosurgeryRobotics
- Nanorobotic swarms get busy shredding brain tumors from the insideBiotech and enhanced humans
- In vivo robotic surgery gets closer after mini robot breakthroughRobotics
- In a world first doctors use VR to help parents visualise their child’s surgeryVirtual worlds
- China just performed the world’s first remote neuro-surgery over 5GConnected society
- 3D Bio-Printing robot prints human tissue within the body to treat internal injuriesRobotics
- Proximie helps self-isolating surgeons perform virtual surgeries from home during Covid-19Virtual worlds
- Indian surgeon completes world’s first remote robotic human heart surgeryRobotics
- World’s most dexterous robot now solves Rubiks’ cubes one handedRobotics
- World first as Chinese surgeon performs remote robotic surgery across a 5G networkRobotics
- World first as scientists create nanobot swarms capable of performing surgeries in humansRobotics
- Meet the robot surgeon that’s going to be taking aim at your organsRobotics
- Revolutionary liquid reverse filter is “straight out of science fiction”Industry and manufacturing
- US military starts trialling robotic surgeons in the battlefieldBiotech and enhanced humans
- World’s first autonomous robot Dentist implants two teeth into a patientRobotics
- Meet the robot that’s fifty times faster than a brain surgeonRobotics
- Robot surgeon STAR bests its human counterparts in world firstRobotics
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311 Institute has published 20 articles about Surgery since 2016, most recently on 25 February 2026.
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