UK's first robot kidney transplant

Robots have been used to carry out kidney transplants for the first time in the UK. The machines are controlled by surgeons but computers and precision motors allow greater accuracy, meaning much less painful damage to muscle. As a result, the man and woman who had the operations at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London were able to recover using only paracetamol rather than morphine. Siobhan Morris, 42, who underwent the operation a week ago, had previously had a kidney transplant by traditional open surgery, but found the pain with the robotic method was'probably 80 per cent less'. 'I was amazed,' the mother-of-two from Kent told The Sunday Times.