Robot surgeons kill 144 patients, hurt 1,391, malfunction 8,061 times – Iain Thomson

Surgery on humans using robots has been touted by some as a safer way to get your innards repaired – and now the figures are in for you to judge. A team of university eggheads have counted up the number of medical cockups in America reported to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from 2000 to 2013, and found …