“Robot-assisted surgery may sound a little scary, but it’s increasingly common in many hospital. The devices currently in use are slaves to the surgeons but scientists working here in Britain are now developing a new breed of more autonomous for the operating theatre … But now researchers at Imperial College London want to soup up the slave. … Now you may get a bit of a shock if you’re told one morning that it’s going to be a robot like this operating on you, but increasingly that’s the …