Surgical Robotics: Recent Development Trends and Challenges

This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of robots as medical devices for clinical applications. Since the 1980s, robots have been used in vivo (in vivo refers to use related to medical purposes). Unlike robots in other industries, surgical robots are held to strict standards and, like other medical devices, must be precisely and effectively tuned. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of current advances in the field and identifies some of the current challenges faced by the field. In such systems, it is extremely important to maximize the effectiveness of medical procedures, addressing the limitations of human capabilities. Various models of medical robots have been put into clinical and practical applications, including microbots, capsule cameras, and da Vinci surgical robots. However, these robots still require human operation to complete medical tasks. More autonomous medical robots are currently under development. It is believed that in the future, more precise, effective, safe, and autonomous medical robots will be developed and put into use.