Surgie, a humanoid medical robot, is about to give an ultrasound to a patient. Credit: David Baillot/University of California San Diego As waiting rooms fill up, doctors get increasingly burned out, and surgeries take longer to schedule and more get canceled, humanoid surgical robots offer a solution. That's the argument that UC San Diego robotics expert Michael Yip makes in a perspective piece in Science Robotics. Today's surgical robots are costly pieces