Imagine that you are sitting in a game hall, manipulating the handle with both hands, keeping your eyes fixed on the screen, and the subtle movements will affect the success or failure of the role. Only this time, the screen is not a virtual battlefield, but a person's heart; You are not manipulating a virtual weapon, but a surgical robot named Da Vinci. It sounds like science fiction, but this is the daily life of many surgeons nowadays.

Da Vinci surgical robot is quietly changing people's imagination of surgery. Traditionally, doctors in the operating room must wear masks and hold scalpels in person. Wrist trembling, strength control and even a deep breath may affect the operation. In front of the Da Vinci system, the doctor sits on the console a few meters away, gets a clearer and more stereoscopic view than the naked eye by the camera, and transmits the action to the mechanical arm through the handle. Even better, these movements are "amplified" and "filtered", even if the doctor's hand shakes slightly, it can be completely eliminated when it is transmitted to the robot arm.

This design sounds cold, but it is actually very human. For example, when doing prostate cancer resection or myomectomy, traditional surgery may damage peripheral nerves, making it difficult for patients to recover after surgery. The Da Vinci system, with its precise robotic arm, can bypass key nerves and only remove lesions like "peeling oranges". This precision not only means smaller incision and faster recovery, but also means that the quality of life after operation is more secure.

However, the most interesting place is not its high-tech shell, but its "sense of dislocation". An operation looks more like a virtual reality experience: there is a machine between the doctor and the patient, and the patient may even think that "the robot is operating on me". On the psychological level, this strangeness will remind people of the boundary of "man-machine cooperation" in future medicine-are we outsourcing surgery to a cold machine or treating the machine as an extension of the doctor's arm?

In fact, Da Vinci's operation was not perfect. Its cost and maintenance are high, and the cost of a single operation far exceeds that of the traditional method, which means that it is still a "luxury" medical choice at present. At the same time, doctors need long-term training to really master this precision tool. An untrained doctor facing the Da Vinci system may be more clumsy than holding a scalpel directly. In other words, machines have not replaced doctors, but redefined the skill curve of doctors.

The more secret change is: Do surgeons still need to "feel" in the future? In the past, surgery was a profession of "eating by hand", and famous doctors were often called "golden knives". But in front of da Vinci, this kind of hand feeling is transformed into data and action instructions, and the accuracy comes from algorithms and machinery, not the strength of the wrist. Decades later, young doctors may get used to completing their first operation on the console instead of practicing suturing in front of the dissecting table.

In a sense, Da Vinci's operation is not only a technological innovation, but also a turning point of medical culture. What we see is not only a surgical robot, but an experiment about how to balance efficiency and temperature in future medical care. It is exciting and disturbing, because technology has not only changed the way of surgery, but also rebuilt the trust relationship between doctors and patients.

Perhaps in the near future, the operating room will be more and more like a sci-fi scene: doctors wear VR glasses and control robots to wander around in the body. When patients wake up, they see not wounds, but almost disappeared traces. At that time, people may miss those "hands as steady as mountain" in the past, or they may be glad that they live in an era that makes surgery light. Da Vinci robotic operation is a mirror, which reflects not only the limits of medical technology, but also our imagination of future medical care.

（Writer：Dirick）