Initial clinical experience with a novel flexible endoscopic robot for transanal surgery.

"Declarations Conflict of interestMario Morino, Edoardo Forcignanò and Alberto Arezzo have no conflict of interest or financial ties to disclose. Ethical approval and consent to participateNot applicable. Consent for publicationNot applicable. Research involving human participantsAll the investigators conducted the study following the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki of 1975 (as revised in 2008). Conflict of interest Mario Morino, Edoardo Forcignanò and Alberto Arezzo have no conflict of interest or financial ties to disclose."

"Funding Authors have nothing to disclose. This study was supported by Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) under the programme ‘Dipartimenti di Eccellenza ex L.232/2016’ to the Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Torino."