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                                                Laparoscopy
                                                              Video
                                                            Scope with  Laparoscopic
                                                            camera  instruments
                                                                Intestines

                                                  Patient front  Patient side view
                        Open surgery











                           Flexible
                          endoscopy                     Notes
          Fig. 13 Surgical approaches. Adapted from Wang, X., Meng, M. Q.-H., 2012. Robotics for
          natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery: a review, J. Robot. doi: 10.1155/2012/
          512616.


































          Fig. 14 Several applications of surgical robotics.
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