Is the Future of Phlebotomy Robotic?
The first use of robots in surgery took place in 1984, when a team at the University of British Columbia Hospital in Vancouver used the voice-operated “Arthrobot” to assist with positioning a patient’s leg for orthopedic surgery. Over the next year, robots assisted with 60 more surgeries at that hospital. Since then, the use of surgical robots, and the diversity of their tasks, have grown exponentially and with great success.