The Future of Surgery is Robots and Artificial Intelligence

With AI and big data analytics powering the next generation of surgical robots, 3 most promising AI systems can be incorporated in future surgical robots: IBM Watson, Alpha Go, and machine learning algorithms. Watson is capable of becoming an intelligent surgical assistant capable of storing a plethora of medical information and use natural language processing to respond to surgeon's queries. Google's DeepMind project AlphaGo can be a potential contender for surgical robotic AI systems. Moreover, unsupervised pattern matching algorithms would aid doctors in recognizing when a sequence of symptoms results in a particular disease.