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A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors.<\/p>\n

The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy, where robots could perform complex surgeries without human help.<\/p>\n

The findings<\/a>, led by Johns Hopkins University researchers, were recently spotlighted at the Conference on Robot Learning<\/a>\u00a0in Munich, a top event for robotics and machine learning.<\/p>\n

Authors from Johns Hopkins include ECE PhD student Samuel Schmidgall; Associate Research Engineer and Malone affiliate <\/span>Anton Deguet<\/a>; and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering Marin Kobilarov. Stanford University authors are PhD student Tony Z. Zhao and Assistant Professor Chelsea Finn.<\/span><\/p>\n

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