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The Background of Robotic Surgery

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The history of robotic surgery is fascinating and helps us better understand the evolution of our currently available technologies. Like many advances in surgery, its history is rooted in the US military and was developed to serve and address a special need. Some of these challenges still exist, but evolution in technology and ever-changing consumer demands have framed the current robotic platforms. We will briefly describe these changes in this chapter.

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This work is supported in part by the Foundation for Surgical Fellowships.

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  1. Department of General & Gastrointestinal Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Arinbjorn Jonsson M.D. & Ankit D. Patel M.D., F.A.C.S

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Correspondence to Ankit D. Patel M.D., F.A.C.S .

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  1. Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Emory Endosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ankit D. Patel

  2. Gastrointestinal, Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, The Center for Advanced Surgical Technology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

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Jonsson, A., Patel, A.D. (2018). The Background of Robotic Surgery. In: Patel, A.D., Oleynikov, D. (eds) The SAGES Manual of Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51362-1_14

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