I would've fully imagined it the other way around, a robot with much steadier hands, greater precision movements, and 100x better eye sight than a person would surely be used for rich people?

I get your point, but wouldn't it be worse to have surgery for the rich and no surgery for the poors?

I’m not sure. Is Elysium style healthcare an inevitable eventuality? Maybe.

I suppose humanless healthcare is better than nothing for the poors.

But as a HENRY - I want a human with AI and robotic assist, not just some LLM driving a scalpel and claw around.

That seems backwards? Robot-assisted surgery costs more and has better outcomes right now. Given how hesitant people are, these aren't going to gain a lot of traction until similar outcomes can be expected. And a rich person is going to want the better, more expensive option.

Robotic assisted surgery is only helpful in some types of operations like colon surgery, pelvic surgery, gall bladder surgery. It’s not been found helpful in things like vascular surgery, cardiac surgery, or plastic surgery.

By Elysium level tech a surgery could mean simply swapping an organ with artificially grown clone, so perhaps surgeries won't be that complicated anyway...