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Abu Dhabi’s New Lung Robot Uses AI. The Doctor Still Drives

The word robot makes it sound as if a machine has taken over the procedure. That is not what Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi just introduced. On July 28, the hospital announced the Middle East's first use of the MONARCH robotically assisted bronchoscopy platform.

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