Robots are taking surgery to the next level. Here’s how.

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Dr. Mark Soliman is one of many surgeons at the forefront of robotic surgery, a medical technology innovation that seeks to reduce the margin of error for invasive surgery, helping to make surgical procedures safer and more precise.

“Once you’ve taken these big imprecise hands of ours, scaled them down and put them inside the patient, we can achieve a level of precision that simply isn’t possible for the human body alone to do,” says Jonathan Conta, VP of product management at Intuitive, a manufacturer of robotic surgery equipment.

Rather than having his hands directly on a patient, robotic surgery allows Soliman to conduct surgery from a remote console that provides him with an immersive, 3DHD view of the targeted anatomy. The surgeon uses a pair of grips to manipulate a separate robotic surgical system and conduct his various surgical maneuvers.

“There are lives at stake when you perform surgery. Any miscalculated movement... bad things can happen,” Soliman says, his pause alluding to the debilitating, sometimes even fatal consequences, of a slip-up in surgery. But Soliman says robotic surgery eases his anxiety about any such potential mistakes. “Anytime I operate robotically, I feel like I’m so much more calm and I have full control of the operation.”

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This video was created in partnership with Intuitive.

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