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Collection of Robotic Surgery Malfunctions

Occurred
Jul 13, 2015
Published
Jul 21, 2015
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Study on database reports of robotic surgery malfunctions (8,061), including those ending in injury (1,391) and death (144), between 2000 and 2013.

Developers

  • Intuitive Surgical

Deployers

  • Hospitals
  • Doctors

Harmed parties

  • Patients

Classification

Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Study documents 144 deaths and 1,391 injuries from robotic surgery malfunctions, indicating significant physical harm.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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