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Surgeons Outperform Robots in Hip Surgery.

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A new Journal of Arthroplasty study found surgeons outperformed robots and robotic-arm-assisted systems in total hip replacement. The Mako robotic system works well for knee procedures, but for hip surgery it offers no measurable advantage over skilled surgeons, raising questions about the cost of the technology.

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They actually found that in good hands, surgeons did better than robots. How about that? I mean, that is so contemporary. It was only published yesterday. Surgeons did better than robots or robotic arm-assisted total hip replacement. So when you consider the investment that's gone into hip replacement— I'm sorry, into robotics— it's time to pause. Now, robots and— Tiger, now you and I discussed this— robots have been great. The Mako is great for unis. No one can argue with that. And, uh, for hip replacement here, apparently in this study anyway, really respected study, Journal of Arthroplasty, published only yesterday, actually no worse than no benefit.