What does "75%" mean in a surgical procedure?: if the surgery includes steps 1 to 4, 1 to 4 are equal in time, and the robot does 3 of the 4 stages. That's 75% of the surgery.

Autonomously:

a close loop system, using classical control theory or a multimodal machine learning model.

Conditions:

YES:

• Any surgery, anywhere, during a preclinical study under ethical and regulatory oversight.

• The first use is communicated via a medical journal case study or a medical society conference presentation.

• ***No ethical or regulatory oversight invalidates the result***.

• It's still a YES with or without human operator oversight (meaning: the surgeon is present to take over in case of something going wrong).

NO: The autonomous part of the robotic procedure is less than 75% of the procedure.

***The bet excludes existing semi-autonomous systems that already exist: LASIX, orthopaedic drilling or hardware insertion/fixation, endovascular, bronchoscopy, endouro, gastrointestinal endoscopy.***