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The readers of this book will certainly know what surgery is: it is very likely that them or a person within their circle of relative and friends might have had a first hand experience of it. What might be less likely is that such surgery was performed through the use of a robot. This is going to change, as every year the number of robotic surgeries increases with respect to the number of open surgeries and in certain cases such as for urology and gynaecology it has become a de facto standard where a robot is available.
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Grespan, L., Fiorini, P., Colucci, G. (2019). Surgical Robots. 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_3
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