Some Riverside high school students got a glimpse Monday, Oct. 20, at the future of surgery.
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And it involved robots.
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Clinic Territory Assistant Anthony Grad watches Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, as robotic arms reach for items during a demonstration of how robotic surgery is performed at Riverside Community Hospital. Arlington High School students visited for the presentation. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
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Clinic Territory Assistant Anthony Grad watches Monday, Oct. 20, 2025, as robotic arms reach for items during a demonstration of how robotic surgery is performed at Riverside Community Hospital. Arlington High School students visited for the presentation. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
About 40 students from Riverside’s Arlington High School visited Riverside Community Hospital for a presentation on robotic-assisted surgery.
At the downtown hospital, they saw demonstrations and listened to Dr. Aaron Lee, the facility’s robotic surgery chair.
The teens got to see surgical robots used for thoracic and bariatric prodecures as well as for joint replacements and hysterectomies, a hospital news release states.
The session showed how robotics technology is changing surgeries, improving the outcomes for patients and shortening their hospital stays so they can more quickly resume regular activities, the release states.
As a fun footnote, Arlington students got to help name the hospital’s six surgical robots.
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