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History of Robotic Surgery

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The use of robotic systems in medicine began with an idea coming from the United States Army (USA), in which, instead of displacing wounded soldiers, a robotic prototype could be carried at a distance by a surgeon in order to promote the required procedure on battlefields. Since the 1980s, the race for the construction of several models, such as AESOP, ZEUS, and Mona, allowed robotics to reach its splendor today, both in its most used da Vinci system and in other new generations of robots.

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Ferreira, L.M., de Araújo, R.S., Oyharçabal, C.M. (2023). History of Robotic Surgery. In: Manzano, J.P., Ferreira, L.M. (eds) Robotic Surgery Devices in Surgical Specialties. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35102-0_1

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