Tehran University of Medical Sciences Archives of Anesthesiology and Critical Care 2423-5849 8 1 2022 01 03 1 2 Zahid Khan Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Surender Malhotra Department of Anaesthesiology, MM Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Ambala, India. 2021 12 18 The definition of the word ‘Robot’ was first given by Josef Capek in 1920; who used the word in the title of a play by the name of “Rossum’s Universal Robots” As per the definition of Encyclopaedia Britannica robot is "any automatically operated machine that replaces human effort, though it may not resemble human beings in appearance or perform functions in a humanlike manner". The role of robots in surgery and anaesthesia is now a reality. Since the approval by FDA in year 2000, surgeons have been using Da Vinci surgical robot in more than 1500 hospitals in USA. In the last 20 years, surgeons have shifted to small incision surgical procedures with the help of surgical robot among other techniques. https://aacc.tums.ac.ir/index.php/aacc/article/view/451