P.S: That end-effector design could be more..versatile. But still for a first hyper-specific job design. Very nice.
Ex-McKinsey executives will kybosh it and hire minimum wage workers to avoid shelling out for the CapEx.
It's the American way.
But that's only if the search is constrained to immediate locality. The "great" thing about this concept is that we can hire minimum wage workers overseas to control robots in America (latency be damned).
Hundreds of politicians and government officials are working feverishly to "fix" this.
For them, technological progress is the enemy because it disrupts the social hierarchy.
We must have minimum wage workers, to maintain the social hierarchy.
And you need someone who's qualified to place the ports in the body in the first place.
In practically all cases, if someone needs a highly specialized surgeon, it's logistically much simpler to take the patient to them.