[Clinical application status and development trends of robot-assisted gastrointestinal tumor surgery]

In recent years, robot-assisted gastrointestinal tumor surgery has developed rapidly, with a continuous increase in surgical volume, increasingly mature surgical techniques, a growing variety of surgical procedures, and in-depth clinical research. It has become an important development direction of minimally invasive treatment for gastrointestinal tumors. Increasing evidence suggests that robotic surgery could confer significant advantages over laparoscopic surgery in terms of precise dissection, damage control, and organ function preservation. This review focuses on robot-assisted radical surgery for gastric and colorectal cancers, systematically elaborates its development and current status of clinical application, compares the differences in the definition of surgical indications for gastric and colorectal cancers between domestic and international guidelines, analyzes the technical advantages of robotic surgical systems in lymph node dissection, digestive tract reconstruction, and organ function protection, as well as the application progress integrated with indocyanine green fluorescence imaging, 5G telemedicine, and single-port technology. This review further explores emerging trends including equipment innovation, intelligent integration, and smart advancement. Robot-assisted gastrointestinal tumor surgery is evolving toward greater precision, intelligence, and efficiency. In the future, robot-assisted surgery will become the mainstream surgical approach for gastrointestinal tumor treatment.