The long definition of a robot from the internet:
“Robotics combines science, engineering and technology to design, construct, operate and use machines programmed to replicate, substitute or assist humans in completing tasks of varying complexity.”
There are many types of robots, but those most interesting to we ophthalmic surgeons are surgical robots. Most surgical robots today are actually articulating cobots in which a mechanical arm attached to a machine with a visualization system collaborates with a living human to accomplish a surgical task. Articulating cobots are designed