Technological advances, including various medical devices, have been tremendously beneficial. They allow us to make diagnoses more easily and accurately, and also to improve treatment outcomes. Of the various fields of medicine, urology as a specialty is especially dependent on technology and medical devices. For example, we were the first to incorporate and implement innovations ranging from endoscopy to lasers and robotics. The contemporary generation of surgical robot systems made by Intuitive Surgical Inc. (Sunnyvale, CA, USA) resulted from research initially conducted by the Stanford Research Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Agency, and the Department of Defense of the USA. The idea of surgeons being able to perform surgery from a remote location was attractive for use in space travel to treat astronauts and to remove specialist surgeons from the battlefield. At the time, nobody expected that this new technology and the devices developed to incorporate these advances would be used for prostate cancer surgery. Advances in imaging technologies now allow us to noninvasively visualize and diagnose in ways that were not possible earlier. Minimally invasive surgery has become the standard of care in most fields of urologic surgery.