Adam Lorentz, MD, on predictions for future advances in robotics

In this video, Adam Lorentz, MD, FACS, offers his thoughts on where the field of robotic surgery in urology is headed. Lorentz is an assistant professor and the chief of urology at Emory University Hospital, Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia.

Video Transcript:

These things seem to be hard to predict, but I think anything that can drive us toward less invasiveness is always where we're trying to head. I would say the initial few stages of robotics were to improve laparoscopy, to expand the indications of laparoscopy. Then recently, of course, with the single-port device, that has truly allowed us to be less invasive with our robotic approaches, accessing our anatomy in ways that we could not do easily, and making minimally invasive approaches more approachable for surgeons, growing their learning curve. I think future advances will further drive that toward more minimally invasive surgery, hopefully. There are projects working on transurethral robotics and other smaller platform robotics. I know that my head and neck colleagues would love the single-port platform to be smaller, but urologists would love it to be stronger. So, there are also different needs from different types of surgeons operating in different areas. Of course, that leads to a little bit of difficulty in predicting where we're headed, but I think improving these less invasive platforms is hopefully where we're going.

This transcript was AI generated and edited by human editors for clarity.