Ahmed Gamal, Marcio Covas Moschovas, Abdel Rahman Jaber, Shady Saikali, Roshane Perera, Chris Headley, Ela Patel, Travis Rogers, Martin W Roche, Raymond J Leveillee, David Albala, Vipul Patel
Robotic surgery has expanded globally across various medical specialties since its inception more than 20 years ago. Accompanying this expansion were significant technological improvements, providing tremendous benefits to patients and allowing the surgeon to perform with more precision and accuracy. This review lists some of the different types of platforms available for use in various clinical applications. We performed a literature review of PubMed and Web of Science databases in May 2023, searching for all available articles describing surgical robotic platforms from January 2000 (the year of the first approved surgical robot, da Vinci® System, by Intuitive Surgical) until May 1st, 2023...
January 17, 2024: Journal of Robotic Surgery