TY - JOUR AU - Khandalavala, Karl AU - Shimon, Tim AU - Flores, Laura AU - Armijo, Priscila Rodrigues AU - Oleynikov, Dmitry PY - 2019 TI - Emerging surgical robotic technology: a progression toward microbots JF - Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery; Vol 5 (January 2020): Annals of Laparoscopic and Endoscopic Surgery Y2 - 2019 KW - N2 - Robot-assisted surgery has quickly expanded due to the increasing opportunities for minimally invasive surgery across surgical domains. As robotic surgery approaches a decade of commercial use, the market is diversifying and novel surgical modalities with new technology, decreased costs, and smaller size are becoming available. This chapter aims to highlight emerging surgical robotic technology with a special focus on the miniaturization of modalities toward construction of micro-scale surgical robots, termed “microbots”. UR - https://ales.amegroups.org/article/view/5499