What is Robotic Surgery? What are the Benefits and Uses?

Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery. Minimally invasive surgery is to perform the surgery without damaging the surrounding tissues with special surgical instruments placed in incisions smaller than 1 cm instead of operating the patient through a large incision. The robotic surgery system has a camera arm and mechanical arms with surgical instruments attached. The surgeon controls the instruments and camera from a console in the operating room. This console gives the surgeon a high-resolution, enlarged and 3-dimensional image of the operation area that is invisible to the normal eye. In open surgery, when the surgeon's hand and instruments cannot enter or damage the environment, the robot works like an artificial hand, and it transfers the movements of the surgeon's hand to the console and perfect the surgery.