History of Robotic Surgery and Its Implications in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
摘要
The concept of an automated construct to perform various tasks in order to aid humans existed long before the term robot was coined by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his 1920 play “Rossumovi Univerzalni Roboti” (Rossum’s Universal Robots). The depiction of humanoid creatures, raised in tanks, performing forced labor (as the Slavic-originated term “robota” refers to the kind of work the serfs were forced to perform on their master’s lands) ignited public interest in the idea of machines or artificial beings performing tasks traditionally carried out by humans [1].