title: [Laparoscopic principles of robotic surgery].
abstract: The evolution of surgical therapy has been vertiginous, from the classical principles of open surgery to laparoscopy and currently to robotic surgery, in which the principles of robotic engineering have been successfully applied to the surgeon's daily work. The development of minimally invasive surgery, initially led by conventional laparoscopy, was a fertile field for the development of surgical techniques with the robot. The use of automatized systems for surgery is not as new as one could think, but the robots today participating in the main operative rooms worldwide are an example of the newest and most advanced available technology. Urology has become the leading surgical speciality in the application of technologies for diagnosis and treatment of its diseases, and robotic surgery is not an exception. We present our vision about the state of the art in automatized surgery, in the setting of its close relationship with conventional laparoscopic surgery, which originated it.
authors.affiliation: Secci6n de Endourología y Cirugía Laparoscópica Avanzada, Clinica Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile. octaviocastillo@vtr.net
authors.forename: Octavio A
authors.initials: OA
authors.lastname: Castillo
authors.forename: Rafael
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Salas
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods*