What is thought to be the first completely robotic lung transplant in history was successfully conducted in a Spanish hospital. 'Da Vinci', a four-arm robot, was employed by surgeons at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona to complete the operation. The patient, a 65-year-old man named Xavier, had pulmonary fibrosis, a serious lung condition that necessitated a lung transplant. The procedure for a typical lung transplant requires breaking many ribs and a 30 cm chest incision. This enables surgeons to access a patient's lung, remove it, and swap it out for a donor lung that is in good shape. What is thought to be the first completely robotic lung transplant in history was successfully conducted in a Spanish hospital. 'Da Vinci', a four-arm robot, was employed by surgeons at the Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona to complete the operation. The patient, a 65-year-old man named Xavier, had pulmonary fibrosis, a serious lung condition that necessitated a lung transplant. The procedure for a typical lung transplant requires breaking many ribs and a 30 cm chest incision. This enables surgeons to access a patient's lung, remove it, and swap it out for a donor lung that is in good shape. But because of Da Vinci, the doctors could enter the chest cavity through a considerably smaller cut and avoid breaking any bones. But because of Da Vinci, the doctors could enter the chest cavity through a considerably smaller cut and avoid breaking any bones. Da Vinci robots were developed by American corporation, Intuitive Surgical, in 2000, and are now used to treat hundreds of thousands of patients each year. The system doesn’t perform the surgery itself but translates a surgeon’s hand movements at a console in real-time. The robot has only been used for a lung transplant once before, at the Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. However, on that occasion, it was only used for part of the procedure, and the lung was still inserted into the chest in the traditional way.