Competence, virtual reality and robotics in surgery

Abstract EN

Surgical operations have developed in the method which the surgeon’s hands and eyes are used to gain experience and advance the skills.

However, to realize a new surgical therapy in the 21st century, it is necessary to use various advanced technologies.

These include among many, three dimensional medical images, computer simulation and virtual reality technology, and robots in surgery.

This is an outline of the various aspects of these technologies with some more details about robotics in surgery as it is the most recent advancement in that technology arena.