@cbball Absolutely! Robotics married to AI and supported by real time MRI imaging will allow skilled technicians to perform surgeries that only the most gifted can do today.
I remember my high school and college friend who went on to become a very busy ophthalmologist; his bread and butter was cataract surgery. One day he said, “ You can teach a monkey to do what I do, and he might even do it better.”
Most - certainly not all - surgeries are repetitive in nature and AI guided robots with a single human standing by for judgement or tweaking purposes might be able to oversee multiple surgeries simultaneously.
In the airline industry there used to be 3-4 people in a single cockpit. But when the advanced computer driven autopilots arrived it was jokingly said that all you really need is a single pilot and a large dog; the dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the controls!😂.
Not exactly the same, but you see my point.
Phil