Robots are not yet the complete answer for surgery

A group of academics studied 10,624 cases of robotic surgery from 2000 to 2014. Their conclusion: a nonnegligible number of technical difficulties and complications are still being experienced during procedures. They found 144 deaths (1.4% of the 10,624 reports), 1,391 patient injuries (13.1%), and 8,061 device malfunctions (75.9%).  Things were better for simpler operations (gynecology and urology) than for more complex surgeries, such as cardiothoracic and head and neck.