In robotic surgery, only the robotic system’s “arms” touch the patient, and the surgeon does not touch those “arms.”
Fortunately, robotic surgery still requires a surgeon, and to be direct, a very skilled one. The surgeon controls the procedure with enhanced visualization and computer assistance from a surgery command center that can be proximal or even distant from the patient.
The original goal of robotic surgery was to make major surgery less invasive, allowing procedures that required large incisions to be performed with only two small incisions. Over time,