Croatian scientific society for the history of health culture
Abstract
Da Vinci robot is increasingly used for operations adding the advantages of robots to the favor of medicine. This is a historical article with the aim to present the evolution of robots in the medical area from the time of ancient myths to Renaissance and finally to the current revolutionary applications. We endeavored to collect several elegant narratives on the topic. The use of imagination could help the reader to find similarities. A trip from the Greek myths of Hephaestus through Aristotle and Leonardo Da Vinci to the robots of Karel Capek and Isaac Asimov and finally the invention of the medical robots is presented.Da Vincijev robot se sve više koristi za operacije iskorištavajući prednosti robota u korist medicine. Ovo je povijesni članak u kojemu je cilj predstaviti evoluciju robota u medicini od vremena drevnih mitova do renesanse i konačno do sadašnjih revolucionarnih aplikacija. Nastojali smo prikupiti nekoliko elegantnih priča na tu temu. Korištenje imaginacije može pomoći čitatelju pronaći sličnosti. Predstavljeno je putovanje od grčkih mitova o Hefestu preko Aristotela i Leonarda da Vincija do robota Karela Čapeka i Isaaca Asimova te konačno izuma medicinskih robota
