The operating room has long been the stage for human skill, steady hands, and judgment honed over decades. But a new player is stepping into this sacred space—artificial intelligence fused with robotics—and it’s proving to be faster, safer, and more precise than anything we’ve seen before. A sweeping review of 25 studies conducted between 2024 and 2025 has found that AI-assisted robotic surgery can cut complications by up to 30%, shorten recovery times, and even reduce hospital costs. In short, the surgical revolution is here, and the scalpel may soon share equal billing with the algorithm.
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Computer and Robot Assisted Surgery is an area receiving broad attention worldwide because of its strong potential to advance new levels of healthcare. In Europe, the robotics and cognitive science communities have been independently pursuing research in this field, making significant, but fragmented contributions. Furthermore, strong surgical instrument manufacturers are now present in Europe.
Robotic surgery is minimally invasive, meaning that instead of operating on patients through large incisions, doctors use miniaturized surgical instruments, helped by a camera on a console located in the operating room. In the past two decades, a growing number of complex urological, gynecological, cardiothoracic and general surgical procedures are being performed at an increasing number of worldwide hospitals. The benefits for the patient are fewer traumas on the body, minimal scarring and faster recovery time than traditional procedures. And it is a safe and controlled environment as humans are always guiding the surgical robots and specifying what actions they take.
The high cost of surgical robots has been a barrier, but the global market for surgical robots is experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 10.4%, from $3.9 billion in 2018 to $6.5 billion by 2023, according to Markets and Markets.
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Will robots make doctors obsolete? Nothing could be further from the truth
“Doctor, will they replace you with a robot?”
The question takes me by surprise but I suppress my instinct to laugh.
His life has been marked by mental illness and cancer. The first diagnosis presented after a series of missed opportunities as he cycled through woeful visits that ignored his symptoms. Finally, one doctor listened and his life changed.
In retrospect, his cancer was just waiting to be found by the first person to seriously entertain the notion that mental illness often coexists with physical illness. Fortunately, the cancer was amenable to a cure.
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Some brave soul volunteered for a completely robotic dental surgery
The robot implanted 3D-printed teeth into a woman without help from dentists.
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