Would you trust a machine to perform brain surgery?

Just as machines are used to conduct abdominal surgery, surgeons may soon leverage machines to perform less invasive brain surgical procedures. Machines can allow surgeons to conduct surgical procedures deep into the human brain via tiny incisions. This will be significant progress from the current extensive, skull-based approach where surgeons use large incisions to perform brain surgeries.

Moreover, brain surgeries can take a long operation time and a high concentration demand. Such challenges affect the surgeons’ physical and mental strength and eventually reduce performance, leading to mistakes during brain surgery procedures. Machines can act as surgeons’ assistants and help them standardize the surgical procedures, providing a higher accuracy degree throughout the surgical procedures. Additionally, machines can reduce surgical anesthesia time and improve the patient’s overall well-being.

Brain Navi Biotechnology’s NaoTrac is a significant progress towards the development of autonomous brain surgery machines. NaoTrac is designed using a combination of Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Technology, and Machine Vision. While brain surgery machines are not ready for use on humans, their development will be priceless in the medical sector. The machines will be able to navigate better in small spaces than the human hands can do.

The main challenge of using machines to conduct brain surgery is acceptance. It will be challenging for people to believe in machines and accept that they can perform surgical procedures accurately and better than humans. However, as Albert Einstein would say, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” The use of machines in surgical procedures might be the future of brain surgery. If using machines improves the chances of survival during surgical procedures and minimizes the possibility of complications after surgeries, why wouldn’t a patient accept them? In the near future, robots will mark a new era in brain surgeries where machines will be preferred in brain surgeries due to their efficiency and ability to increase patients’ overall well-being.