Robots have revolutionized surgery and still we see new innovations every day. But we need to accept that machines have had a huge impact on surgery and it was during 1991 that first time surgeons were allowed to control robots arms remotely from a console that provides a three dimensional image of proceedings. But there is a device being developed that can allow a surgeon to remotely control an endoscope while a patient is inside a magnetic resonance imaging machine as this would be able to give a real time image feedback during gastric procedures and prostate biopsies.
The future would be extreme miniaturization of tools, as well as developments in augmented reality, where visual displays show computer-generated images and information overlaid onto images of the real world. But we have to accept the fact that Robotic surgery is the future of medicine. Thus the great innovation would be that the robot will reduce in size and become more user-friendly or it can be said as more modular. Imagining these computer aided tools will become the norm for specific applications, especially those requiring very small incisions on small organs.
Surgery of the future will allow in increase in flexibility and position of the robotic arms used and will allow the surgeon to maneuver the tissues with increased degree of freedom which wil reduce the rate of infection as a result of which the patients take less time to recover. Many of the surgical procedures performed today using standard laparoscopic technique may be performed more quickly and easily using some of the most advanced surgical systems of future.
