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Survey papers devoted to medical robotics and related subjects are eval-
uated in Scopus Database at 243 (see Fig. 3), revealing the development of
this field.
The most widespread surgical robot is the da Vinci Intuitive Surgical
System (http://www.intuitivesurgical.com/) shown in Fig. 4. The robotic
system comprises three components: (1) a surgeon’s console, (2) a patient-
side robotic cart with four arms manipulated by the surgeon (one to control
the camera and three to manipulate instruments), and (3) a high-definition

Fig. 3 Data on medical robotics from Scopus in February 2020. Query: KEY (medical
AND robot) AND (LIMIT TO (LANGUAGE, "English”)) AND (LIMIT-TO (DOCTYPE, "re”)).

Fig. 4 The intuitive surgical Da Vinci system by ker—Norberak egina, used under CC
BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid¼84236736.