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Also known as robotic surgery, robotic surgical procedures, robotic surgical procedure

surgical procedure aided by robotic systems

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Other names
Robotically-assisted surgery

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Encyclopedic overview

Robotic surgery or robot-assisted surgery is any type of surgical procedure that is performed with the use of robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was developed with the primary goal of overcoming the limitations of pre-existing minimally invasive surgical procedures, alongside enhancing the capabilities (for example, increasing their work precision) of surgeons performing open surgeries.

In robotically assisted minimally-invasive surgery, the surgeon uses either a remote manipulator or a computer control system to perform dissection, hemostasis, and resection.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “robot-assisted dih” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.