General Discussion

It's just operated by a human.

The human looks at an image on a monitor and manipulates a set of tiny surgical instruments that have been snaked into the patient through a small incision.

It's not hard to imagine ai interpreting the image and deciding how to guide the instruments and make the cut or whatever.

And sewing up is clearly something that could be automated.

Of course, you'd need staff to sterilize the room and equipment, set the patient up, and be there in case something goes wrong, but ai could eventually do quite a lot of the process.

Eventually, ai robots would be able to sterilize the room as well as perform other hospital functions as well.

I think patient acceptance might be a bigger hurdle, though....