The Technological Evolution of Robot-Assisted Surgery in Clinical Treatment: from Precise Control to Intelligent Integration

Zheyuan Xu

doi:10.54097/dnw5p813

Authors

Zheyuan Xu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/dnw5p813

Keywords:

Robotics, robotic-assisted surgery, history of surgery robot, technology.

Abstract

Nowadays, Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is highly mature and has been used in most of the surgical treatments. Compared to the history of clinical surgery, the surgical robot is only a small part of the whole history of clinical surgery. Still, it has proved itself to the world by its controllability and precision. This article aims to review the development history of the RAS by papers on Google Scholar, from the first surgery robot Arthrobot, the most famous robot Da Vinci robot system, to the recent robots like Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES) robot, and the combination of surgery robots with artificial intelligence (AI) and fifth-generation mobile communication technology (5G). The paper aims to review the history of RAS and discuss the future development and challenges of the surgery robots.

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