随着传统腹腔镜技术的广泛应用，现代外科进入了微创化时代。但传统腹腔镜设备的局限性，极大地限制了微创外科的进一步发展。新出现的机器人辅助腹腔镜（外科机器人）技术，超越了传统外科与腹腔镜技术的局限性，其卓越的三维视野以及更好的灵巧性，能够安全完成更精细和复杂的操作，因而外科机器人技术正逐步渗透到外科各亚专科领域，将预示微创外科新纪元的来临。

Current status and future perspective: robot-assisted laparoscopic techniques        ZHOU Ning-xin, LIU Quan-da. The PLA Secondary Artillery General Hospital, Beijing, 100088, China
Corresponding author：ZHOU Ning-xin, E-mail: zhounx301@163.com
Abstract    With the widespread of conventional laparoscopic techniques, modern surgery has evolved into a minimally invasive era. However, the limitations of conventional laparoscopic equipments confine its further expanding applications. The advent of robot-assisted laparoscopic techniques (surgical robot), with advantages of improved 3D visualization of the operative field and increased dexterity allowing more precise and complicated procedures, overcomes above limitations. Thus, there has been an unprecedented explosion in the use of surgical robotics in all surgical subspecialties, which heralds the coming of a new minimally invasive era.