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Annachiara Casella is a pioneering surgeon whose work is redefining the boundaries of minimally invasive hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery. Her research centers on the application and standardization of robotic platforms—from the multi-arm da Vinci system to the emerging Single-Port (SP) platform—to treat complex liver and pancreatic pathologies. Casella’s major contributions include publishing one of the first institutional series on robotic liver resection (9 citations), where she demonstrated the feasibility and safety of the approach, and establishing a standardized technique for robotic right liver mobilization (7 citations), a critical step for reproducible outcomes. She has also pushed the envelope with groundbreaking case reports, such as the first description of awake robotic liver surgery (6 citations) and robotic emergency resection of a ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma (5 citations), showing that robotics can be safely applied even in fragile or acute settings. With recent work on robotic pancreatoduodenectomy and a scoping review of the single-port platform, Casella is at the forefront of surgical innovation, providing step-by-step blueprints that help other centers adopt these advanced techniques. Her cumulative work, with papers spanning 2023–2025, is rapidly gaining traction and establishing her as a key voice in the future of robotic general surgery.