From Robotics To AI … Yesterday's Unknown Is Tomorrow's Promise

By Michael Myers

When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in the fall of 2005, I was young for this disease and otherwise healthy. As my wife and I began a tireless search for the “right” path forward, it was in the early days of robotic- assisted surgeries. I will never forget a conversation with a nationally renowned urologic surgeon, who made me feel as if I would be “nuts” (his word) to go the robotic path for a prostatectomy when tactile sensation was, in his words, “the most important part of a surgeon’s micro-surgical work.”