Google Aims at Creating Better Robotic Surgical Assistants ! Will Help Docs During Surgery !

Google just keeps giving birth to … itself. It wants to do many things. It has already done so many things. But now the company wants to enter hospitals, or rather wants hospitals to look at its robots that may one day help doctors perform complex surgeries.

After the Internet giant rebranded itself as Alphabet earlier this year, the changes have kept rolling in. Alphabet-owned Google Life Sciences was recently renamed as Verily Life Sciences. And now, yet another new company is emerging from this branch. Named Verb Surgical Inc, this latest offshoot might be one of Google’s most impressive to date. Its goal is to work on creating robots that are capable of helping doctors in an operation theatre and thanks to Google’s partnership with Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson, the Verb Surgical team hopes to leverage Google’s expertise in machine learning and advanced image processing and Johnson & Johnson’s vast knowledge of medical advices. 

Robot-assisted surgery is the latest buzz in the world of medical sciences. Now after tech giant Google has announced that it wants to be part of this (probably) wonderful robotic world it was an uproar.

Verily CEO Andrew Conrad said that they expect to work closely with pharma, biotech, medical device and diagnostic companies, patient advocacy groups, and academic researchers in different ways for a long time to come.

Conrad also said that this would not be the only such partnership of Verily and the company would find more partners as it ramps up its research and operations.

Gary Pruden, worldwide chairman, Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices believes Verb Surgical has the potential to change the future of surgery, not just robotic surgery. The team has already made meaningful progress on the robotics platform, which is being developed for application across a host of surgical specialties.

The concept that robots can help doctors during surgery is not new. Across the globe there are firms working on such robotic technology. For example, recently in China a surgical robot performed a kidney surgery on a six-year-old boy for the first time.

According to researchers, robotic assistants would help doctors overcome the current limitations of surgical procedures. For example, robots in an operation theatre would hold the Instruments or do more mundane jobs while the doctors focus on complex procedures.

Sci-fi movies and books for a long time now have created a fictional world where robots can wield scalpels and needles but it is only now that they have started appearing in the real world.

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