Also called: Robotics Coordinator, Robotic OR Specialist
Keeps a hospital's surgical robots running, scheduled, and staffed with trained teams.
Tests the robot's arms before the first case, troubleshoots a camera glitch mid-surgery, schedules the robot across specialties, and trains new scrub techs to dock it.
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Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 3 years after high school. Usually a surgical technologist or OR nurse background plus robot-manufacturer training.
Ways in: 2-year college, Certification, On-the-job training. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Surgical Technology, Nursing.
Growing much faster than average. Robotic surgery volume is growing fast.
Low risk for 10 years. Robotic surgery is growing fast; robots report their own faults, but people still set up, troubleshoot and train teams.
Classes: Engineering CTE, Biology, Computer science, Anatomy & physiology.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-2055.
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