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The iRobo-Surgeon conundrum: comparative reflections on the legal treatment of intraoperative errors committed by autonomous surgical robots

Robo-surgeons tort liabilityAcademictopic page

Assessment outcome

total 1/4 (actionability 0 + authority 1); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 1.5/6

Total1/6
Actionability0/2
Authority1/2
Currency—

Authorship & scope

Attribution (G4 evidence)

The text contains author acknowledgements, indicating a human author wrote the article.

Issuer authority (evidence)

Score 1: Academic article by an individual author (reputable institution acting officially/academic publishing venue without explicit peer-review status stated in text).

Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.

Eligibility gates

G1 · Retrievablepass

HTTP 200, 4892 words of full text extracted

G2 · AI nexuspass

The article's primary subject is autonomous surgical robots and AI liability.

G3 · Governance nexuspass

Addresses legal liability frameworks, rules, and policy directives for autonomous systems.

G4 · Attributablepass

The text contains author acknowledgements, indicating a human author wrote the article.

G5 · In forcepass

No evidence on the page indicates this academic article is superseded or withdrawn.

Scored criteria

Actionability

0/2

Score 0 (description/analysis only): The academic article analyzes product liability frameworks and tort rules without naming binding obligations or steps to follow.

Authority

1/2

Score 1: Academic article by an individual author (reputable institution acting officially/academic publishing venue without explicit peer-review status stated in text).

ABSTRACT The bridge towards fully autonomous, context-aware surgical robots is fraught with challenges, not least of which is ascribing legal responsibility

Currency

—

computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)

Classification

Coverage topicRobo-surgeons tort liability
PerspectiveAcademic
Lifecycle stageN/A cross-cutting
Layermodel
Granularitytopic page