title: New Frontiers in Robotic Surgery: The latest high-tech surgical tools allow for superhuman sensing and more.
abstract: Over the past 30 years, robots have become standard fixtures in operating rooms. During brain surgery, a NeuroMate robot may guide a neurosurgeon to a target within the pulsing cortex. In orthopedics, a Mako robot sculpts and drills bone during knee and hip replacement surgery. Dominating the general surgery field is the da Vinci robot, a multiarmed device that allows surgeons to conduct precise movements of tools through small incisions that they could not manage with their own hands.
authors.forename: Michele
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Solis
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends