There was a news item here (UK) last night on TV about next gen surgical robots. (Newsnight, BBC, I think.)
Among others Google has one. And guess what?
OK, just in case it wasn’t obvious: Google are going to make them all “internet connected” so they can share data, outcomes, procedures, performance, etc. with each other, to learn and improve.
It may have been very lazy journalism (“internet connected”) or it may have been lazy Google PR, and perhaps they won’t simply be “internet connected”, but the idea I may have some future keyhole surgery done by a robot that could be hacked by Vlad from Putinland mid-procedure does not fill me with confidence.
ETA: Found a version of the news item online:
