The new wave of surgical technology is about to happen as the popular Internet brand, Google, teams up with Johnson and Johnson to make the first advanced surgery assisting robots. This could largely benefit a lot of patients, healthcare workers and systems alike, according to Johnson and Johnson.

Google's Life Science and Johnson and Johnson's tech company, Ethicon, will be closely collaborating to create advanced surgery technology with great precision so that surgery robots can assist in surgical procedures in the near future providing health care professionals with some ease of mind.

The team is expecting to have start with minimally invasive type surgery with the assistance of the future device. Ethicon would be working on a state of the art robotics hardware that helps surgeons have a greater sense of control and accuracy during procedures while minimizing trauma towards the patient. Meanwhile, it is expect that Google will be working on possible software programming and engineering.

This seems to be a big leap forward and a possible competitor for Intuitive Surgery's Da Vinci Xi, a surgery assisting robot which came out in 2000.

Besides that, Google and Johnson and Johnson would be seriously working on making this possible hoping to finalize the creation of the technology towards the second quarter of the year. They would still need clearance from Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act for performing a collaboration of assets and intellectual property later on.

The partnership has not disclosed any financial information for the creation of the robot. However, last year, Google's Life Science had partnered with pharmaceutical giant Novartis with the creation of "smart contact lenses" which both companies are still hoping to be commercialized in the future. The contact lenses were built to measure blood sugar from the excretion of tears on the eyes.

Google Life Science, a division of Google X, is a semi-secret facility in California that creates biotechnological advancements for health. Popular projects to date are the Google "Contact Lenses" and Liftware spoon which is a spoon for people who have tremors.