A16Z-backed startup is building a self-improving robotic surgeon trained on massive surgical datasets, similar to how LASIK automated what was once manual work. The system learns to perform procedures only a handful of experts can do today, expanding access to care but threatening surgeons who can't retrain for a world where robots handle the work.
Well, what did we just show you? They're not going to cross over because by the time they try to cross over, even the surgeons are under threat because this is a robotic surgeon's hand. I haven't showed you this yet, but this here is showing how surgery is going to be affected. This is a new startup funded by A16Z, which has a whole— it's a fund of funds of billions of dollars of funds that are investing in robotics. We are building a self-improving system.
A system that is capable of learning and ultimately performing any procedure.
And this is not new. I mean, do you want LASIK, some guy with his hands doing laser on your eyes, or would you rather have the LASIK machine? This is just the LASIK machine brought to everything.
We are training large behavioral models on massive amounts of surgical data across the spectrum of specialties. There are procedures that only a few hands on the planet can perform, and so people just don't get access to the surgical care that we need. Only now do we have the tools to begin attacking this problem.
Fundamentally, like, these systems need to be built from the ground up for autonomy, and that's what we're doing.
So this, so this whole concept of like, oh, well, they're just going to go become welders and plumbers. That ain't going to happen because what they don't take into consideration in this report is the impact of
