1495, Leonardo da Vinci designed the robot. Can he be called the first robot?

The first Da Vinci surgical robot was introduced into the PLA 30 1 hospital. After 10 years of development, more than 40 hospitals in China have been equipped with 57 Da Vinci surgical robots, and nearly 30,000 operations have been completed. This robot was named Da Vinci, because its creator thought that he designed a humanoid machine in 1495, so it was considered as the first inventor of the robot in the world. But in fact, the Da Vinci robot is not the humanoid robot, artificial intelligence deep learning and other functions that we always thought. Strictly speaking, Da Vinci robot is an advanced robot platform, which consists of three parts: the surgeon's console, the bedside manipulator system and the imaging system.

From a medical point of view, Da Vinci robot is an advanced laparoscopic system. During the operation, it also needs a mechanical arm to pass through the chest cavity, abdominal wall and other parts, and its design concept is to perform complex operations with minimally invasive methods. Ms. Pan Zhongying, president of Beijing United Family Hospital, directly defined Da Vinci robot as a surgical tool with robot characteristics. Hemujia Hospital is the first private medical institution equipped with Da Vinci robot in China. Using Da Vinci robot system (hereinafter referred to as "Da Vinci robot") to complete major and minor operations 100 cases, has a profound understanding and practical experience in robotic surgery.

In an interview with TI Media, Pan said that Da Vinci robots mainly provide support for doctors and help minimally invasive surgeons to operate with higher accuracy and fewer mistakes. For example, for a highly skilled surgeon, if he encounters some difficult cases, the use of some traditional medical instruments will be restricted during the operation. At this time, the role of Leonardo da Vinci's robot is highlighted. In addition to dealing with the places that the "doctor's hand" can't reach during the operation, the instruments of Leonardo da Vinci's robot are very fine, measuring the size in centimeters, so the operation is very accurate, and the wound is small, the bleeding is less, and the patient's recovery time is greatly accelerated.