Actual time spent scrubbing and gowning up is minimal, and you have to do approach and closure physically on the patient (not on the robot console). In a traini

Actual time spent scrubbing and gowning up is minimal, and you have to do approach and closure physically on the patient (not on the robot console). In a training institution, these can often be handled by trainees, but the lead surgeon will want to take a bigger role in placement of the ports used to introduce instruments. The ability to physically see instruments, supplies, etc., is often important. So you'd have to have some setup that allows injecting other images into the surgeon's feed from the robot. This is pretty everyday stuff for an efficient surgeon doing certain kinds of surgeries (i.e., ones whose duration is relatively short and predictable), so I'm not sure why this is being reported on as though it's new. Maybe there's even more standardization of technique?