BEGIN ARTICLE PREVIEW: Robot surgery is burgeoning across Europe and the wider world, with one UK-built surgical robot now completing more than 1,000 operations.With a pair of 3D glasses, and using what look like video game controllers, skilled surgeons can utilise the high-tech Versius system to undertake complicated procedures with often much better outcomes for patients.The use of this key-hole surgery – or minimal access surgery – has benefits such as shorter hospital stays for patients, faster recovery time, less pain, less bleeding, and reduced scarring.Versius was created by Cambridge-based CMR Surgical, and is now in use in hospitals in France, Italy the UK and India.“If you could have a robot with articulated wrists and the enhanced vision and more people could do minimal access surgery, then more patients would get all the benefits of the minimal access,” said Mark Slack, CMR Surgical’s co-founder and chief medical officer.Launched in 2018, the system h

In its recently published report'Innovations in Robotic Surgery 2020-2030: Technologies, Players & Markets,' IDTechEx has reported that the robotic surgery market will reach over $12bn by 2030. The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the last five to ten years has led many to associate it with robotic surgery systems. Currently, however, few robotic surgery systems are equipped with AI-driven human-robot interaction capabilities. AI offers numerous opportunities for the advancement of robotic surgery. It can facilitate interaction mediums between surgeons and surgical robots, for example by recognizing surgeons' movements (e.g.

In its recently published report "Innovations in Robotic Surgery 2020-2030: Technologies, Players & Markets", IDTechEx reports that the robotic surgery market will reach over $12 billion by 2030. The rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the last 5-10 years has led many to associate it with robotic surgery systems. Currently, however, few robotic surgery systems are equipped with AI-driven human-robot interaction capabilities. AI offers numerous opportunities for the advancement of robotic surgery. It can facilitate interaction mediums between surgeons and surgical robots, for example by recognizing surgeons' movements (e.g.

LEHIGH VALLEY, Pa. - The Lehigh Valley Health Network will soon debut a da Vinci single port (SP) robotic surgery system. It will be used for minimally invasive urologic surgical procedures. Surgeons will have the ability to enter the body through a single, small incision to perform complex procedures. The procedure is controlled by a surgeon that oversees the robotic system. "Surgeon only need to make a one-inch incision utilizing da Vinci SP, which may reduce pain, shorten the healing process, limit complications and get the patient back to work and other normal activities more quickly," said LVHN's Chief of Urology Angelo Baccala.