Dr. Joseph Scheidler has been a surgeon for over 30 years, but this year he’s doing surgeries with a robot. “I think the biggest thing that I was concerned with is people think that a robot is doing the actual procedure and we are still in control of every mechanism of the procedure,” said Scheidler. He says before they use any tools for surgery, the robotic surgical assistant,or ROSA, goes in first to help get a more accurate surgical cut. “It allows us to confirm our cuts and confirm the position of the implant that we’re gonna put in for every single patient individually, rather than a generalized implant,” said Scheidler. He says that means if you get a new hip or knee, you’ll get longer wear it out as quickly because of the robot’s help. “When we initially started doing total joints, they would last five or ten years if we were really lucky, so the more specific we are, the more wear you get out of that implant,” said Scheidler.