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The History of Robotic Surgery

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If you will have the precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must inhumanize them. (J. Ruskin, The Stones of Venice1

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  1. Southwestern Urology, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Michael E. Moran

  2. Department of Urology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Michael E. Moran

  3. American Urological Association’s William P. Didusch Center for Urologic History, Linthicum, MD, USA

    Michael E. Moran

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    Ashok Kumar Hemal

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    Mani Menon

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Moran, M.E. (2011). The History of Robotic Surgery. In: Hemal, A., Menon, M. (eds) Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-114-9_1

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