What podcasts say about Nick Damiano
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What Nick Damiano has said on podcasts
17 statements · 13 positive · 2 negative · 2 neutral
AI will totally transform surgeons’ work during the next decade.
“survival surgeons are going to be totally transformed by AI in the next decade”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 2:37
Surgery will become mostly autonomous while surgeons retain supervisory roles.
“it's going to be mostly autonomous. Surgeons will still have a job and a role to play, but a lot of it's going to be done by AI.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 3:07
Andromeda’s platform may eventually perform most types of surgery.
“we're expanding from there into other urology and then other a lot of other surgical procedures to where this can be a general platform doing most types of surgery eventually.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 4:00
Andromeda’s force-minimization feature is expected to reduce surgical damage.
“we automatically minimize that, which we think will reduce the, the incidence of things that are damaging in that space.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 6:32
Proprietary surgical data creates a competitive moat for companies in surgical robotics.
“it becomes a moat for any company that operates in this space.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 7:44
Andromeda has the world’s only 45-case dataset for this surgical procedure.
“Right now, we've done, I think, the only. We've done 45 cases, and it's the only data set of 45 cases that exist. Like, that's 100% of the world's data”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 8:14
Andromeda plans to increase new procedures from one or two annually to as many as ten.
“we're planning to scale from maybe one or two new procedures a year now, then up to four or five, hopefully 10 someday.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 10:02
Surgical environments are less complex than driving environments because they lack adversarial actors.
“the world is less complex. And most importantly, you don't have these other adversarial actors like other cars or pedestrians.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 11:39
Robotics companies building custom hardware will iterate more slowly than Andromeda.
“The companies that choose that game, which is basically every other robotics company that exists so far, will find themselves moving a lot slower and a lot more inertia than what we have.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 13:45
Future surgeons may oversee ten simultaneous surgeries instead of one.
“Maybe you're overseeing 10 surgeries instead of one right now”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 15:35
Andromeda’s clinical iteration cycle is currently under one month.
“we've been basically doing cases, then building new stuff, testing on the bench cadavers, then back into cases in less than a month.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 17:04
General-purpose generative AI is not yet reliable enough for Andromeda’s surgical goals.
“I don't think it's quite there yet to be as reliable as we want.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 22:12
Andromeda reached robot launch in three years with approximately $15 million, versus industry norms of hundreds of millions.
“We were the fastest robot from zero to launch in three years and we only spent about 15 million total in getting there, whereas the norm is hundreds of millions.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 23:28
Andromeda is currently cleared for market deployment only in New Zealand.
“we're only clear to be on the market in New Zealand right now, though we're close in a few other countries as well.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 25:36
Existing FDA regulation does not inherently prevent deployment of Andromeda’s system.
“nothing prevents this from happening.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 26:14
Andromeda’s system could enable remote surgeons to oversee any procedure worldwide.
“you could have this installed there and then do any procedure with any surgeon anywhere overseeing it.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 27:58
Remote robotic surgery could give everyone access to the best available surgical care.
“So you give everybody access to the best possible healthcare.”
Open the episode · The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313Listen at 28:06
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