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# Surgeons remotely operate humanoid robots on live animals
- URL: https://adjacent.media/signals/surgeons-remotely-operate-humanoid-robots-on-live-animals/
- Published: 2026-07-10T16:09:07.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-10T16:09:07.000Z
- Description: A team at North Carolina State University demonstrated that a surgeon can control a humanoid robot to perform a complete laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a pig—proving remote surgical dexterity at scale beyond current telerobotic systems.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #signal, theme-connected, robotics, hardware, infrastructure

Source: [Slashdot: Hardware](https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/07/10/0128252/humanoid-robots-controlled-by-surgeons-did-world-first-operation-on-live-pigs?utm%5Fsource=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm%5Fmedium=feed)

A team at North Carolina State University demonstrated that a surgeon can control a humanoid robot to perform a complete laparoscopic cholecystectomy on a pig—proving remote surgical dexterity at scale beyond current telerobotic systems. This collapses the distinction between specialized surgical robots (Da Vinci, which costs $2M+) and general-purpose humanoids. If a Tesla or Boston Dynamics bot can be repurposed for the OR, the hardware economics shift dramatically. The constraint now is adoption: hospitals must weigh general-purpose robots with variable precision against domain-specific machines with decades of validation.