Rong LiuGo WakabayashiHong Jin KimGi Hong ChoiAnusak YiengpruksawanYuman FongJin HeUgo BoggiRoberto I. TroisiMikhail EfanovDaniel AzoulayDaniel AzoulayFabrizio PanaroPatrick PessauxXiao Ying WangJia FanJi Ye ZhuShao Geng ZhangChuan Dong SunZheng WuKai Shan TaoKe Hu YangXiao Ping ChenPeking University People's HospitalAzienda Ospedaliera-Universitaria Pisana302 Hospital of People's Liberation ArmyGeneral Hospital of People's Liberation ArmyXijing HospitalCHU MontpellierQingdao UniversityLanzhou UniversityYeungnam University Medical CenterHopital CivilXi'an Jiaotong UniversityUniversità degli Studi di Napoli Federico IIYonsei UniversityHopital Paul-BrousseFaculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol UniversityFudan UniversityCity of Hope National Med CenterThe Johns Hopkins HospitalTongji Medical CollegeMoscow Clinical Scientific CenterAgeo Central General HospitalTel Hashomer Hospital2020-01-272020-01-272019-03-28World Journal of Gastroenterology. Vol.25, No.12 (2019), 1432-144422192840100793272-s2.0-85063673983https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/51786© The Author(s) 2019. The robotic surgical system has been applied in liver surgery. However, controversies concerns exist regarding a variety of factors including the safety, feasibility, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of robotic surgery. To promote the development of robotic hepatectomy, this study aimed to evaluate the current status of robotic hepatectomy and provide sixty experts' consensus and recommendations to promote its development. Based on the World Health Organization Handbook for Guideline Development, a Consensus Steering Group and a Consensus Development Group were established to determine the topics, prepare evidence-based documents, and generate recommendations. The GRADE Grid method and Delphi vote were used to formulate the recommendations. A total of 22 topics were prepared analyzed and widely discussed during the 4 meetings. Based on the published articles and expert panel opinion, 7 recommendations were generated by the GRADE method using an evidence-based method, which focused on the safety, feasibility, indication, techniques and cost-effectiveness of hepatectomy. Given that the current evidences were low to very low as evaluated by the GRADE method, further randomized-controlled trials are needed in the future to validate these recommendations.Mahidol UniversityMedicineReviewSCOPUS10.3748/wjg.v25.i12.1432