Surgical robotics archives - vol.12.

It is worth time-to-time to look back to the roots. Now, 30 years apart... See our previous posts: Archives here and here and here and here and here.

Read fascinating stories from Rick Satava, documented over 2 decades ago in Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques: " Surgical Robotics The Early Chronicles 2002"

 Abstract  

"The use of robotics has been emerging for approximately 75 years, but only during the past 5 years has the potential of robotics been recognized by the surgical community as a whole. This personal perspective chronicles the development of robotics for the general surgical community, the role of the military medical research effort, and many of the major programs that contributed to the current success of robotics. "

 Source: PubMed