 Hello, I am Dr. Deepak Dubey, I am a consultant urological surgeon and head of the department of urology at Manipal Hospital's Bangalore and I also perform robotic urological surgery. There are huge number of benefits with robot assisted surgery because essentially it's keyhole surgery so the scar which is made is very small, it's done through tiny keyholes whereas open surgery involves a large cut over the abdomen or the chest of whichever organ is being dealt with and because of the large cut there is more pain in the postoperative period, it takes more time to recover, it takes more time to get back to normal activity and more time to get back to work for those who are working and the incidence of blood loss is significantly lower with robot assisted surgery. So looking at all these parameters, robot assisted surgery definitely scores much above open surgery in urology.