Robot-assisted surgeries 'costlier but safe'
Patients who have robot-assisted surgeries on their kidneys or prostate have shorter hospital stays and a lower risk of having a blood transfusion or dying - but the bill is significantly higher, a study found. Ref. Source 7
Man I don't know if I will feel comfortable with a robot doing a surgery. My first thoughts would be supposed someone hacked into the bot? Suppose there was some electrical fault and then the robot went all screwy!
Would you have robotic surgery?
The biggest thing in operating rooms these days is a million-dollar, multi-armed robot named da Vinci, used in nearly 400,000 surgeries across America last year - triple the number just four years earlier. Ref. Source 8
Space technologies improve surgeries back on earth
A novel surgical robotic system has been developed that provides tactile feedback and is capable of single-incision and natural orifice (Incision-free) robotic surgery. The system minimizes surgical trauma and is safer than currently available robotic systems. Ref. Source 2a.