ABSTRACT
Robots have been in the operating room for approximately 10 years now, but their use in assisting laparoscopic endocrine surgery is very new. This chapter begins with a review of the history of endocrine surgery to show how it has evolved to include the use of surgical robots. Next we will describe the different types of surgical robots, and finally we will review the published data on robot-assisted laparoscopic adrenalectomies.
