Contributors from a number of medical specialists as well as gynecology explain to budding gynecologists the additional skills needed when conducting gynecologic surgery using a robotic interface, primarily the da Vinci Robotic surgical system, which the US Food and Drug Administration approved in 2005. Their topics include preoperative preparation and positioning for robotic gynecologic surgery, robotic simple hysterectomy, the concept of sentinel lymph node biopsy in gynecological cancers, identifying and preventing ureteric injuries in complex gynecologic surgeries, and robotics versus laparoscopy for gynecological surgery: the evidence.