>Yet as a general population we live in the safest era there ever was.

Probably due largely to more food and education and overall progress in most places that were previously less developed. I'm not sure it has much to do w/security measures or the lack of them. In any case, it's certainly nice that violence has been trending down for many decades in most places.

oh sorry. You are correct. I remember articles from years ago that implied Mako robots did partial and full knee replacement surgery, not ASSISTED with that type of surgery.

(I still think robots that can perform misc surgery extremely quickly will help improve things, but that may be decades away, of course)

I think over time, as the speed at which robots can make decisions and perform surgical tasks increases, they will get better and better. Being able to perform an operation in a few minutes rather than a couple of hours seems much less invasive for the patients body to deal with.