The Food and Drug Administration granted 510(k) market clearance to a Computer Motion, Inc. surgical robot called AESOP 3000. AESOP (Automated Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning) incoroprates ...

Further progress with AESOP led to a master-slave robotic system, ZEUS, in 1996, developed by Computer Motion, the same US company that produced AESOP. This upgraded system has three robotic arms ...