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New Delhi: Elon Musk believes the world will become a better place by having the Tesla humanoid robot, Optimus, which will transform global healthcare by providing surgical precision, which surpasses that of humans. Musk appeared at an event sponsored by Baron Capital founder Ron Baron, explaining why the world's biggest bottleneck in medical care is not money but the small number of highly skilled specialists. Even affluent countries, he held, have a hard time affording the best care due to the fact that skilled surgeons do not grow on trees.
Musk is of the opinion that this long-standing shortage can be addressed by advanced medical robots developed and deployed on a large scale. In spite of the fact there is no medical version of Optimus yet, he believes that the way ahead is clear. Human skills and long training periods would be eliminated, as millions of the same, factory-assembled robots would be able to carry out sensitive processes with the same high level of precision.
Musk claimed that Optimus would later be able to do any medical procedure with a hundred per cent accuracy that was superhuman. He said that these robots would be able to perform workloads that were too complicated or too physically challenging for humans to perform and reach the boundaries of modern medical work. He claimed that healthcare could be as scalable as industrial production by eliminating the limitations of human fatigue and cognitive ability and physical accuracy.
Mass production, according to him, is the future of healthcare. Instead of spending many years on the development of human specialists, hospitals could install medical robots that are capable of performing an error-free job. Musk thinks that this change will have the potential to democratise elite care and provide all patients with the same access to the best surgeons in the world.
Although Optimus is still in the early stages of development and would hardly be in the position to execute any high-stakes medical operations, Musk insists that the technology is currently developing very fast. He claims that the potential in the long run is obvious: a world where high-quality and easily available healthcare cannot be confined to human knowledge anymore.
