Tuesday, August 18, 2026

TUESDAY — TECHNOLOGY & WORK

“The surgeon is ascribed blame even when they have had no role in decision-making.”

— Rivero-Moreno et al., Cureus

Robots have been drilling cochleas and cutting bone for knee replacements for over a decade, and the FDA, Britain’s MHRA, and Germany’s device authority still have no specific framework for machines that act on their own. The European Parliament’s answer is supervised autonomy: the final decision always stays with a human surgeon. That is not a technical constraint; it is an org chart. To learn more, Check out the article Autonomous Robotic Surgery: Has the Future Arrived?

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Stay safe. Stay healthy. Be strong. Lead well.

Chad