I vaguely remember the Boyd twins in my grade had a father who did some important stuff in robot-assisted heart surgery.
If only I had been more educated at the time. Maybe I could have stopped them.
http://www.canhealth.com/sep99.html#anchor28843
It's the article titled robotic heart surgery, but it's 9 years old. So it's more of a HUAR history lesson on robot surgery.