Holy cow, that's a confusing title. I clicked on it trying to figure out why you'd give pilots anesthesia on a transcontinental flight.<p>In case anyone hits the comments first and has the same confusion: it's a "pilot study" in the sense that it's the first of its kind, and "transcontinental" refers to controlling the process remotely. Basically: can your anesthesiologist be off-site and do his work over the internet instead of having to be in the operating room?
There are powerful forces disallowing such innovations:<a href="https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/601141/automated-anesthesiologist-suffers-a-painful-defeat/amp/?client=safari" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/60114...</a>
Anaesthesiologist seems like one of the first doctors that could be entirely replaced with a robotic system. They are basically there to monitor and asses multiple vital factors, which seems entirely appropriate for a control system.