文摘
Robots in medicine? This seems fantastic. However, robotic surgery is the main innovative trend in modern medicine. It is rapidly developing and spreading to different fields, and has been highly successful in urology, orthopedics, cardiology, and abdominal surgery. Specific achievements of robotic surgery in our country and abroad and prospects for its development were covered by the author of this scientific paper heard at an RAS Presidium meeting. Original Russian Text 漏 D.Yu. Pushkar鈥? 2012, published in Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk, 2012, Vol. 82, No. 11, pp. 971鈥?81.Dmitrii Yur鈥檈vich Pushkar鈥? Dr. Sci. (Med.), is head of the Department of Urology at the Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry and chief urologist of the Russian Ministry of Public Health.