Robotic Surgery Is Coming, But You Will Need To Wait A Bit: Goldman Sachs

Society is reaching an automation inflection point as robotic surgery is set to introduce cost reductions and quality improvement to a sector where a highly skilled and educated workforce is the largest expense. The move comes as a demographic retirement bubble approaches.

Robotic surgery “remains in its infancy”

Robotics hit an inflection point in 2015, growing 43% year-over-year, a Goldman Sachs report noted. The market for robotics, however, “remain(s) in its infancy” and is set to grow from $200 million to $930 million by 2020. That growth is likely to introduce robots into surgery, and in so doing revolutionizing medical field automation.

What Monday’s Goldman Sachs...