content: I did some math below, from what I can tell, the probability of death by a human surgeon is about two orders of magnitude greater than death by robot surgeon. Ie. Humans account for ~8 of 1,000 deaths during surgery where robots account for ~8.5 in 1,000,000. I could be very wrong though, it's pretty rough analysis. Happy to be corrected. Also, wtf is going on with the graph? Was it made in MS Paint? Why is the 'constant rate' benchmark inclining if the y-axis is 'malfunctions per procedure'?!