Rockdale Medical Center recently welcomed a new addition to its operating rooms — a robot named da Vinci. The da Vinci robot assists doctors with minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery such as gynecological, and urological procedures with the help of tiny remote controlled pinchers operated remotely and a binocular 3D video system. The machine, which cost around $1.7 million, is one of the few located outside the perimeter on the east side of metro Atlanta.