IEEE survey- Parents to allow robotic based surgeries.

Surgical robots powered by AI are bringing new innovations and accuracy to the operating room – but how comfortable are we with this shift, particularly where children are involved?

This week, a new IEEE survey found that most UK Millennial parents are ‘extremely likely’ (39%) or ‘very likely’ (16%) to allow robots to conduct surgery on their child.

Across the world, parents in China are ‘very likely’ (63%) to allow robotic surgery on their child, while 41% of American parents say they are ‘not likely at all’ to allow it.

In addition, 64% of those surveyed say they would be ‘extremely’ or ‘very’ likely to chat online with an AI and speech recognition-powered chatbot to diagnose their sick child.

IEEE Survey- Advantages of robotics 

Antonio Espingardeiro, IEEE member and a software and robotics expert, has made the following comments on the advantage that robots can bring from a diagnostic and surgical perspective:

“Robotics in hospitals is a very recent topic, and chatbots, nurses and doctors can become important tools soon. Online chatbots or ‘robot-doctors’ will eventually be able to collect information, advise on certain conditions, and forward cases to medical professionals.

These technologies will recreate virtual assistants through natural language processing, image recognition, and machine learning techniques. This can influence the level of scalability and triage methods. In sum, doctors can reach the highest number of people and focus on the more important clinical scenarios.

“The most transformative aspect, I believe, will be all about the next generation of surgical robots and the use of AI in chatbots, this is the area where the added value is.

In the case of surgical procedures, robotics can be helpful for a medical professional, for problems such as reducing human tremor, to less invasive surgeries which means less trauma for patients, and faster recovery times.

“For diagnoses, chatbots use machine learning and natural language processing to triage health cases and forward them specifically to the most appropriate professionals. That could mean less waiting times for clinical check-ups.”

About the survey

The IEEE’s “Generation AI 2020: Health, Wellness, and Technology in a Post-COVID World” surveyed 2,000 parents, aged 24–39 years old, with at least one child under 11 years old – 400 each in the United States, United Kingdom, India, China, and Brazil. The surveys were conducted on September 25 – October 6, 2020. https://transmitter.ieee.org/health-wellness-2020/

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