Forbes August 17, 2021
It’s not exactly R2-D2 performing your surgery. But robotic surgery, or more accurately, robotic-assisted surgery, is an operative technique whereby the surgeon performs maneuvers to create surgical dissections at a console at one end of the operating room, while the patient undergoing this surgery is at the other end of the room. Highly trained robotic surgerical technicians help to place and maintain robotic operative arms and cameras in precise locations at the surgical site of the patient prior to and during the robotic surgery itself. This differs from laparoscopic surgery, where the surgeon is operating on the patient while holding and manipulating the laparoscopic instruments directly. Both technologies have been around for decades, with popularity of laparoscopic surgeries taking off...
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