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Emerging Robotics

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New Technologies in Urology

Part of the book series: New Techniques in Surgery Series ((NEWTECHN,volume 7))

We live in exciting times and the pace of change in medical and surgical technology has never been more rapid. Gordon Moore’s 1965 law stated that the power (memory) of computers would double every 18 months.1 Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices remains linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. This law continues to be true today in the field of surgical robotics. What have changed while technology continues to expand are the demands and expectations of our increasingly well-informed, demanding, and internet-literate patients. Patients want the best for themselves and their families and market forces themselves are driving expansion and development in many instances.

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The authors would like to acknowledge contributions from Mr. Hongbin Liu, Mr. Dinusha Zzbyszewski, Mr. David Noonan, Professor Lakmal Seneviratne, and Dr. Adriano Cavalcanti.

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  1. Department of Urology Guy’s Hospital, Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Transplantation King’s College London, London, SE1 9RT, UK

    Prokar Dasgupta

  2. Department of Surgery, University College Dublin Mater Misericordiae Hospital, 47 Eccles Street, Dublin, 7, Ireland

    John Fitzpatrick

  3. Prostate Centre, 32 Wimpole Street, London, UK, W1G 8GT

    Roger Kirby

  4. 1441 Eastlake Ave, Suite, 7416, Los Angeles, CA, 90089, South Africa

    Inderbir S. Gill

  5. Keck School of Medicine, USA

    Inderbir S. Gill

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Challacombe, B., Althoefer, K., Stoianovici, D. (2010). Emerging Robotics. In: Dasgupta, P., Fitzpatrick, J., Kirby, R., Gill, I.S. (eds) New Technologies in Urology. New Techniques in Surgery Series, vol 7. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-178-1_7

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