# Surgery's past, present and robotic future

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2009
- Speaker: Catherine Mohr
- Year: 2009
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Surgeon and inventor Catherine Mohr tours the history of surgery (and its pre-painkiller, pre-antiseptic past), then demos some of the newest tools for surgery through tiny incisions, performed using nimble robot hands. Fascinating -- but not for the squeamish.

## Lectures

1. [Surgery's past, present and robotic future](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/catherine_mohr_surgery_s_past_present_and_robotic_future/567c6c498d74), 19 min (TED's player)