Journal of robotic surgery

01 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04090-1

Surgeons’ Perception Questionnaire on Robotics (SPQR): development and preliminary validation of a surgeon-reported instrument for robotic surgery

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Maria Chiara Sighinolfi, Peter Wiklund, Simone Assumma et al.

02 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04059-0

Comparative perioperative and oncological outcomes of the da Vinci Xi versus Si robotic surgical systems in rectal cancer surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Ivens Murad Garcia Magalhães, Fillipe Augusto de Oliveira Paixão, Gustavo Tamura et al.

The da Vinci Xi replaced the Si with a boom-mounted architecture intended to remove the re-docking and multiquadrant limits on pelvic access. Whether it changes outcomes in rectal cancer surgery is unresolved: existing syntheses pooled r...

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03 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04079-w

Assist team self-efficacy, training needs, and operative outcomes in single-port robotic hepatopancreatobiliary surgery: a mixed-methods study to inform protocol development

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Yeon Su Kim, Haelim Kim, Yeon Hee Bong et al.

04 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04084-z

Robot-associated inpatient hospital activity in Germany, 2019–2025: nationwide trends in coded robot categories and diagnostic case mix

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Roland Mojica Crespo

Robot-assisted surgery has spread from urology into several other surgical fields, and different categories of robotic system are now coded separately in Germany. This nationwide descriptive time-series analysis used aggregated hospital ...

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05 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04094-x

Nephrometry scores differ in their association with warm ischemia time during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy: comparison of RENAL, RPN, PADUA, and SPARE

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Mitsuru Komeya, Kota Kobayashi, Ryosuke Jikuya et al.

06 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04086-x

Comparison of the safety and 24–36-month efficacy of medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty versus total knee arthroplasty in elderly patients (≥ 75 years) with isolated medial-compartment knee osteoarthritis

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Shaolong Wang, Yucheng Fu, Zonglei Guo et al.

07 20 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04019-8

Comparison of robotic and laparoscopic gastrectomy using textbook oncologic outcome: a matched cohort study

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Eun Young Kim, Ji Won Seo, Ki Bum Park et al.

08 17 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04074-1

Short-term surgical outcomes of robotic versus laparoscopic radical gastrectomy for gastric cancer: a propensity score-matched retrospective cohort study

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Dongdong Zhang, Ning Ning, Lin Chen

09 17 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-04081-2

Adoption of robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery across surgical specialties in France: a nationwide population-based study

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Anaïs Havet, François Bettega, Violaine Fernandez et al.

10 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1007/s11701-026-03994-2

Correction: Staying minimally invasive: robotic versus laparoscopic colorectal cancer surgery in a propensity-weighted Italian multicentre cohort

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Alessio Giordano, Luigi Marano, Giuseppe Lamacchia et al.