Editing Remote surgery (section)

==Unassisted robotic surgery==
As the techniques of expert surgeons are studied and stored in special computer systems, robots might one day be able to perform surgeries with little or no human input. Carlo Pappone, an [[Italy|Italian]] surgeon, has developed a software program that uses data collected from several surgeons and thousands of operations to perform the surgery without human intervention.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dlmag.com/1653/robot-successfully-completes-unassisted-heart-surgery.html|title=Robot Successfully Completes Unassisted Heart Surgery Digital Lifestyle Magazine @ dlmag.com|date=20 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820022121/http://www.dlmag.com/1653/robot-successfully-completes-unassisted-heart-surgery.html|archive-date=20 August 2006}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|reason=Could have sworn that my research turned up an article on how the original info on this had been garbled and propagated by the news media, and that the robot actually still had some human assistance. |date=December 2015}} This could one day make expensive, complicated surgeries much more widely available, even to patients in regions which have traditionally lacked proper medical facilities.