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The addition of new technologies to an established field has always the potential of creating unexpected and dangerous situations because of the mismatch between the established routines and the capabilities enabled by the new technology. In particular, the development of robots for surgery is creating potential risks to patients because of the lack of understanding of their operational conditions, the lack of proper personnel training, and the different interfaces forced by the robots among the operators involved in the surgical process.
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Grespan, L., Fiorini, P., Colucci, G. (2019). Introduction. In: The Route to Patient Safety in Robotic Surgery. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 126. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03020-9_1
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