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Robots already have a significant role in medicine. Robots are helping doctors achieve more precision in the operating room, performing safer, less invasive techniques. For example, The Da Vinci Surgical System by Intuitive Surgical helps simplify complex procedures, and lets surgeons work through much smaller incisions, thus making patient recovery easier and quicker.
Advances in bio-robotics are leading to even more and more applications in surgery _____ robots have the potential to perform better than human surgeons in certain respects.
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