摘要: New technologies, in particular virtual reality and robotics, will have a major impact on health care the next decade. Clinically validated, powerful medical simulators are now available use across world. General surgery leads of simulators, neurosurgery with augmented image guided surgery. Robotics used orthopaedics cardiology. Other applications being mental health, anaesthetics, emergency medicine. Rapid developments internet “e-learning” domains accelerated dissemination simulation techniques, interactive 3D images, structured courseware. This review describes application robotics to surgical training planning execution procedures theatre discusses near term future this new technology. A successful simulator or system based requires participation team specialists including experts ergonomics applied psychology, software engineering digital design, electromechanical engineering, microtechnology. Consequently, no single database adequately covers all issues involved. is our experience supplemented data from searches Medline Ergonomics Information Analysis Centre (University Birmingham) various web search engines. Current systems owe their existence pioneering early middle 1980s. Organisations developing robots replace humans hostile hazardous environments—undersea, nuclear installations, space, battlefield—turned an emerging technology that seemed offer ideal solution. The developers claimed that, special helmet equipped head tracking devices displays, it was possible create illusion for wearer he she present such environment (“telepresence”) and, fibre optic glove, them …