• Medical Robots
  • amirali-babavali,1,* misagh-nouri,2
    1. Energy institute of higher education, Saveh, Iran
    2. Energy institute of higher education, Saveh, Iran


  • Introduction: Medical robots are robots that allow surgeons greater access to areas under operation using more precise and less invasive methods. They are in mosttelemanipulators, which use the surgeon’s actions on one side to control the “effector” on the other side. Since 2000, more than two million operations worldwide have been performed by about 3,000 da Vinci surgical robots. While each one fills a decent-sized room, their “hands” are super-small, high-precision instruments. Now researchers are racing to develop the next generation of surgical robots to help to seek and destroy cancers, set bones or even just a hold a camera during an operation.
  • Methods: In the context of this overview, 15 articles were used between the years 2017 through 2019 using the keywords of PubMed, Google Scholar search engines.
  • Results: Surgeons who use the robotic system find that for many procedures it enhances precision, flexibility and control during the operation and allows them to better see the site, compared with traditional techniques. Using robotic surgery, surgeons can perform delicate and complex procedures that may have been difficult or impossible with other methods. Robotic surgery involves risk, some of which may be similar to those of conventional open surgery, such as a small risk of infection and other complications.
  • Conclusion: While robotic surgery is considered generally safe, the FDA is reviewing the data after a growing number of reports of related complications. Surgeons see many advantages to performing procedures with a robot. A computer screen magnifies everything in 3-D, greatly improving the surgeon's field of vision; the robot's "hands" can reach into tighter spots and move in ways that human hands cannot; and the machine's software corrects for a surgeon's hand trembles. The robot can also reduce physician fatigue because surgeons work the robot's controls while sitting at a console instead of standing over the patient for hours.
  • Keywords: Robotic Surgery, Infection, Medical robots