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Article History

Received: 11 August 2023

Accepted: 24 September 2023

First Online: 16 October 2023

Declarations

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: Hamid Sadri and Padina Pezeshki are employees of Medtronic, the manufacturer of surgical robots. Bobby Shayegan have received research fund from Bayer, Janssen, Pfizer and attend advisory boards/consultancy at Bayer, Janssen, Astellas, Novartis, Pfizer, Astra Zeneca, Intuitive Surgical, Knight. Michael Fung-Kee-Fung did not declare any conflict of interest. Pierre Y. Garneau has been speaker for Novo Nordisk and received educational grant from Medtronic. The authors declare that this work has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out, and that, if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, including electronically without the written consent of the copyright-holder.

: This study is a systematic review with no intervention and does not require ethics approval.

: This study is a systematic review with no patient interaction and does not require patient consent.

: This study is a systematic review of published literature, and we did not use proprietary information from other sources.