Self-driving cars, robotic surgery and robotic exoskeletons for soldiers are indeed serious stuff.
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At the same time, many hospitals see robotic surgery as a marketing tool.
Because robotic surgery is faster and easier to learn than laparoscopic techniques, more surgeons can offer it, the company says.
In a separate study published this week, Dr. Paraiso and colleagues randomly assigned 53 hysterectomy patients to either laparoscopic or robotic surgery.
Potential targets will multiply as computers assume greater control over ever more operations in our society, from traffic management to intelligent buildings to robotic surgery.
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Sollecito moved to Verona to take up studies in robotic surgery.
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Professor Ara Darzi, who will be making a presentation later, is one of the world's leading surgeons - the man who pioneered keyhole and robotic surgery.
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An editorial accompanying the JAMA study urged hospitals and surgeons to use caution in promoting robotic surgery in the absence of more evidence or decreases in price.
With additional support from robotic surgery, new technologies offer the prospects of designing new health care systems that address the needs of the elderly while lowering costs.
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"Robotic surgery does help me when I have to go really deep in the pelvis or use a lot of sutures, " says gynecological surgeon Marie Paraiso at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, who uses both procedures.
We changed into scrubs and Alleyn took me through the sixteen operating rooms to show me the laparoscopy suite, with its flat-screen video monitors, the hybrid operating room with built-in imaging equipment, the surgical robot for minimally invasive robotic surgery.
But time and time again the NHS has failed to live up to expectations - at least in the way the health service interacts with patients and shares information (a much stronger case can be made for its use of technology in areas of medicine, such as robotic surgery).
Investors believe that cloud computing and robotic-assisted surgery are waves of the future.
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Just behind MicroStrategy is newcomer Intuitive Surgical, a designer, manufacturer and marketer of robotic systems for performing surgery.
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