Abstract: The development of robotics has been promoting surgical models to a revolutionary change.Medical surgical robot has been used in operation in many fields,such as brain neurosurgery,plastic surgery,orthopaedics,and so on,and shows great social and economical value.The process of robot research based on current medical robotic application was reviewed in this article,and the structure of medical robot system was also introduced.Finally,the prospect of surgical robot was discussed.

Key words: Medical robotics, Computer assisted surgery, Telesurgery, Image processing