Robots are being used for surgery for the past one decade. Robotic surgery is very popular in Countries like USA and it is getting popular in developing countries like India as well.The advantages of Robotic surgery are high precision and magnification 3D vision offered by the camera systems. The operating surgeon can have the comfort of sitting in his chamber without scrubbing in .The most famous and ommonly used Surgical Robots were Davinci Systems.The main road block for wide spread use of Robotic Surgery is prohibitive cost of machine and recurring cost of consumables.The period of patent for Davinci system ends in 2012 and it is hoped that countries like China and Netherlands are going to launch their new robotic operating systems.At present robots are being used for surgery of cancers of colon, prostate, esophagus, uterine cervix and many other sites.
