From play to precision: How Laptitude grows with you

Sep 25, 2025

Learning laparoscopic surgery is a journey, one that begins with curiosity and a willingness to explore. With Laptitude, surgical trainees can build their laparoscopic skills step by step, using the only personal laparoscopic trainer that adapts to their progress. Training starts with engaging, game-based challenges that make learning intuitive, fun, and effective for FLS skill development and procedural practice.

The Laptitude system begins with Curious Cases, a game-based environment where core skills such as instrument handling, precision, and hand-eye coordination are developed through playful, habit-forming challenges. Progress continues in Skill Drills, targeted sessions designed to refine essential FLS skills—grasping, cutting, ligation, suturing, and tissue handling—within lifelike anatomical contexts. Finally, Procedures integrate these competencies into full surgical simulations, using AI-generated organs to create endless anatomical variation and realistic operative scenarios. Together, these stages provide a comprehensive pathway from initial exploration to surgical mastery, preparing trainees for the operating room with confidence and skill.

Mastering laparoscopic skills through play

Curious Cases turns surgical training into a fun, habit-forming adventure. Trainees travel across the globe solving unconventional medical mysteries using precision, dexterity, and surgical skill.

Unlike traditional box trainers or simulators, Curious Cases empowers trainees to:

Master essential laparoscopic skills through hands-on micro-challenges that sharpen instrument control, grasping, cutting, ligation, and suturing.
Train at their own pace with adaptive difficulty that responds in real time, keeping them challenged without feeling overwhelmed.
Build speed, precision, and hand-eye coordination through targeted exercises under realistic time pressure.
Track their progress with actionable insights on accuracy, motion efficiency, and speed to see tangible improvements.

“Basically anybody can enter the game with their own background and come out a well-trained surgeon.” Jan-Maarten Lursema, post-doctoral researcher at Radboud University Medical Centre

“It’s very nice to get the real-time feedback. When you’re training on the box trainer, you really focus on the task…but when you are playing [Curious Cases] you see 16 times lost your instruments or 16 times instrument collision or weight collision, so you get really much feedback and you can improve your skills.” Mauro Meessen, student doctor at Radboud University Medical Centre

“I would recommend it because it also gives a lot of feedback so they can really improve on their own, so I think it’s a really good way to train and it’s pretty fun as well.” Barbara Hulsen, student doctor at Radboud University Medical Centre

Curious Cases isn’t just entertainment, it’s the first step in developing surgical intuition and fine motor skills, preparing trainees for more complex simulations and real-world laparoscopic procedures.

Taking your skills to the next level

After mastering fundamental skills in Curious Cases, trainees move on to Skill Drills and full Procedures, where AI-generated organs provide lifelike, varied anatomical scenarios. Using advanced generative AI validated by surgeons and residents, Laptitude creates 3D organs with:

Hundreds of anatomical variations, including rare and unexpected configurations.
Interactive procedural features, allowing hands-on practice for dissection, suturing, and tissue handling.
Unique combinations for every session, ensuring no two procedures are the same.

Trainees can:

Strengthen pattern recognition and decision-making in realistic scenarios.
Build confidence in handling both normal and variant anatomy.
Experience a safe but challenging environment to hone skills before the operating room.

Validation and feedback from experts and residents

The effectiveness of Laptitude’s AI-generated models was evaluated in a study at Radboud University Medical Centre, involving senior surgical residents and expert gastrointestinal surgeons. Participants assessed five different organ sets on morphology, texture, coloration, anatomical positioning, and relevance to surgical training.

Key findings included:

Overall acceptance was high, with mean scores between 3 (neutral) and 4 (good) on a 5-point scale.
Shape, color, and texture were consistently rated positively, reflecting a realistic and engaging experience.
Diversity of anatomical variations was particularly appreciated, with a mean score of 3.8, confirming that the models provide meaningful exposure to real-life variability.
Suggestions focused on enhancing disease-specific aspects, such as gallbladder hydrops in cholecystitis, highlighting opportunities for future refinements.
Overall, the models received a mean score of 4.1 for suitability in surgical skills training, demonstrating that AI-generated organs can effectively supplement hands-on training.

Wouter IJgosse, MD PhD of the Radboud University Medical Centre presented the initial evaluation of the generative AI technology to produce realistic training models at the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) Annual Meeting in Long Beach, California (view the full poster).

“The use of generative AI technology to generate novel 3D models for surgical simulation training, has never, to our knowledge been done,” said IJgosse. “We showed generated models of gallbladders and their ducts and arteries to a group of surgeons who rated them as realistic with a great deal of usability in surgical simulation training. I’m very excited to be part of the scientific evaluation of the usability of these new technologies in surgical training and I can see a future where we can use AI to generate the models and scenarios used for simulation training and to measure the performance of trainees in these scenarios.”

This validation confirms that Laptitude’s AI-driven approach not only produces visually realistic anatomical models but also supports practical skill development in ways that transfer directly to the operating room.

Whether trainees are mastering basic instrument handling or tackling advanced procedural simulations, Laptitude puts them in control of their learning journey, making laparoscopic training, FLS skill practice, and surgical skill development more effective, engaging, and tailored to each individual. With every session, trainees move closer to becoming surgeons who are confident, capable, and ready for anything the operating room presents.