Modern Surgical procedures are not ideal in terms of efficiency, invasiveness, and reliability. Surgeries involve a large staff working in concert, sometimes over the better part of a day and with minimal rest. Surgeons can become fatigued during long surgeries, possibly experiencing hand tremors and reduced mental faculty as a result. Moreover, a great deal of pain, bleeding, and trauma results from conventional methods of surgery. For instance, traditional heart bypass surgery requires that the patient's chest be "cracked" open in a huge incision. All of these facts point towards a single, undeniable, conclusion: we need to reduce the human error and invasiveness involved with modern surgery, while also improving the efficiency with which
