Over 3 million procedures were performed globally on Intuitive daVinci systems last year, accounting for an 18% increase.

Intuitive Surgical, an American biotechnology company, introduced DaVinci surgical robots in the late 1990s, and they became groundbreaking teleoperation equipment. Expert surgeons could operate on ...

The Lienz district hospital wants to provide state-of-the-art medical care. A new robot is to support the surgeons. However, operations will still be performed by humans.

The treatments are being called a breakthrough. Doctors call the robot DaVinci. They say it gives cancer patients shorter stays in the hospital and better chance to beat the disease. Surgeons say ...