The Advantages of Robotic Assistive Surgery

The advantage of robotics over thoracoscopic is a 3D view with a much higher degree of freedom of movement of the instruments. Some of the newer robotics platforms coming out will utilise these advantages, but they're still in evolution. Sitting at a console remote from the patient when you've got somebody on a heart lung machine does increase the complexity of the procedure significantly. And that's one of the things that few other specialties have to deal with.