Dr Sophia Bano: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- associate professor in robotics and AI at UCL and the technical lead for the AI system
- Quoted on
- Hospital discharge / bed-blocking
- Tracked press citations
- 1
- Most recently quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“By learning from hundreds of surgical videos, [the system] has been exposed to a breadth of surgical examples that would take a surgeon many years to encounter. It is designed to help recognise critical anatomy, surgical instruments and tissue interactions in real time, supporting the surgeon during highly delicate procedures.”
Where Dr Sophia Bano has been quoted
- London neurosurgeons perform first successful AI-assisted operation to remove brain tumourtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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