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Meet Rayhan Papar, the 18-year-old Texas student who trained a da Vinci surgical robot to remove tumors; it succeeded in 3 of 4 gel-model tests

Surgical robots are already used in operating rooms around the world, helping surgeons perform complex procedures with remarkable precision. But these machines are still controlled by human surgeons. Now, an 18-year-old student from Texas has explored what it could take to teach a surgical robot to carry out one of the most delicate tasks in medicine: identifying and removing a tumour on its own.

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