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Sterilizing equipment in an autoclave is already pretty automated, it's just the adding and removing the tools I guess?
I would like to see chatGPT insert a catheter.
Not it
I have sterilized equipment in a an operating room. At the hospital I worked at, most instruments got sent to a central processing where there were first given a soak before going into a what was basically a large dish washer. Once the instruments were cleaned, they were sorted by hand and loaded into the appropriate instrument cases before being hand wrapped and taped. Some of the more specialized sets, delicate tools, and scopes were cleaned by myself or another OR aide.
So most surgical tools can definitely be automated but some of the more delicate or specialized tools do require an actual person to clean them.
This was ten years ago so who knows how technology has changed in that time.