found: Work cat.: Anatomy based registration of CT-scan and x-ray fluoroscopy data for intra-operative guidance of a surgical robot, 1998.
found: New England journal of medicine, May 18, 2006:p. 2099 (Unlike industrial robots, they [surgical robots] are not autonomous, and to be taxonomically correct, they ought not to be called machines. A surgical robot is actually a collection of wristed servant tools called manipulators, which receive digital instructions from an interfaced computer. The master surgeon ... initiates the digital instructions by controlling sophisticated hand grips)
found: Encyclopedia of biomaterials and biomedical engineering, 2004:v. 2, p. 986 (The typical surgical robot architecture follows a classical master/slave teleoperation setup. This setup consists of two modules: the surgeon console (master) and the robot (slave) ... The robotic system interacting with the patient includes at least three robotic arms: two to manipulate the surgical instruments and a third to control the endoscopic camera)
found: Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine, Jan. 2000:p. 129 (A reasonable definition of a surgical robot would be a powered computer-controlled manipulator with artificial sensing that can be reprogrammed to move and position tools to carry out a range of surgical tasks)