To operate using the Robotic system, your surgeon makes tiny incisions in your body and inserts miniaturized instruments and a high-definition three-dimensional camera, and sometimes skin incisions are not required at all. Then, from a nearby console, your surgeon manipulates those instruments to perform the operation.

Think of the Robotic system system like a supercomputer which allows the machine to translate the surgeon's movements into real-time allowing for greater precision. During a robotic-assisted procedure, your surgeon uses master controls at the surgeon console to direct the instruments during your surgery. The computer translates your surgeon’s movements to the instruments that move exactly as the surgeon moves, inside your body. Your surgeon is in control of the robot the whole time; the surgical system responds to the direction they provide.