Dr. Li explained that AI integrates data sciences, optimization theories, and automation technologies, to solve problems in learning through super computation. Its application to health care has just begun. Due to lack of knowledge of the disease mechanisms, the current diagnosis methods are sometimes biased and treatment methods are sometimes inaccurate. AI potentially has a broad application in diagnosis and treatment of diseases and in the improvement of surgical performance and outcomes through automation of surgery.

Currently, quite a few enterprises in China and globally, have started working on the application of AI to medicine. This work can mainly be divided into two categories: one is medical diagnosis systems based on clinical big data and pathology imaging science, such as IBM's Watson and Tencent's Miying (Image Seeking). The second category is medical devices, including sensors collecting front-end signals for data analysis, high-performance AI processors, robotics, and automation systems. Utilizing robotics and data science, Borns has developed new minimally invasive surgical robot with own intellectual property to meet the surgical requirement in China.


Dr. Li stated that every surgery contains massive amounts of real-time data, such as intraoperative images, vital signs, surgeons' manipulations, surgical instruments, etc. Borns robots utilize this vast trove of surgical data, human machine interaction, and optimal control, to achieve precise minimally invasive robotic surgery. The intelligent "surgical brain", through deep learning, gives surgeons guidance on decision-making and surgical assistance to improve the accuracy and safety.

The Ultimate Mission - Autonomous Robotic Surgery.

Medical robotics includes: surgical robots, diagnosis robots, and rehabilitation robots, etc. Compared with human surgeons, robot can maintain more stable, finer and safer operation for a longer time in complicated surgeries. Through the Internet, surgical robots can also perform remote diagnosis and surgery, which could distribute better treatment to remote areas. According to Grand View Research, surgical robotics owns more than 60% of the market share of medical robots. Surgical robots can be further divided into neurosurgery, orthopedic surgery, laparoscopic surgery and interventional surgery robots, etc. The laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery robots are currently the most popular robot. More than 600,000 robotic surgeries have been successfully carried out in more than 800 hospitals in 33 countries around the world, covering gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, cardiology, and thoracic etc.

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