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Surgery By Robots - Robotic Surgery

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

Surgery Robotic Robots Surgery

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!

Surgery By Robots - Robotic Surgery Health & Special Psychology

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

Surgery Robotic Robots Surgery

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.

Surgery Robotic Robots Surgery

That could save a lot of lives.

Particularly in regards to heart surgery, so many things that can go wrong with having to crack the ribcage open.

Surgery By Robots - Robotic Surgery

Wow, now this an advance I can get behind. We'll, that is until Skynet achieves consciousness and decides to exterminate us. At that point it probably won't much matter about the people under the knife though.

Surgery Robots Robotic Surgery

Indeed, it won't be the robot that manipulates a very tiny blade through a tube that causes major problems during the inevitable robot apocalypse. .