Current Status and Future of Robotic Colorectal Surgery

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1 Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois 2 University of Illinois at Chicago, Park Ridge, Illinois Supplemental digital content is available for this article. Direct URL citations appear in the printed text, and links to the digital files are provided in the HTML and PDF versions of this article on the journal’s Web site (www.dcrjournal.com). Funding/Support: None reported. Financial Disclosure:Dr Marecik is a consultant for Intuitive Surgical and received an honorarium for video materials. He is a consultant for Medtronic/Covidien (product development) and a consultant for CMR Surgical.Partially presented at the 2018 ASCRS Annual Meeting as Distinguished Lectureship, Leela M. Prasad Memorial Session/Debate, May 20, 2018, Nashville, Tennessee. The lecture was part of the symposium "Robotic Colon and Rectal Surgery: Tips and Tricks" and was titled “History of Robotics: Where We Were, Where We Are and Where Are We Going?” Correspondence: Slawomir Marecik, M.D., Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, University of Illinois at Chicago, Colon and Rectal Surgery, 1775 Dempster St, Park Ridge, IL 60068. E-mail: [email protected]