Overview of Current Robotic Technology -- Challenges in robotic and minimally invasive pancreatic surgery in the year 2020 -- Challenges in Robotic Liver Surgery -- Robotic Esophageal Surgery -- Challenges in robotic colorectal surgery -- Robotic flexible endoscopes -- Robotized MIS instruments: filling the gap between rigid tools and large robotic systems -- The Role of Endoscopic Technology in GastrointestinaI Surgery -- Indication, Technique and Results of Endoscopic Cricomyotomy -- Transesophageal Tunneling Technique and Peroral endoscopic Myotomy POEM -- The EndoFLIP™ system allows a tailored peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) for achalasia -- G-POEM: A minimally invasive endoscopic technique for gastroparesis -- Intraluminal Endoscopic Suturing System in the Esophagus with separate Instruments -- ENDOSCOPIC SUTURING PLATFORMS FOR BARIATRIC PROCEDURES -- Transgastric endoscopic interventions at the pancreas -- Endoscopic Ultrasound guided Interventions -- EFTR - ENDOSCOPIC FULL-THICKNESS RESECTION -- New endoscopic tools for special indications -- ESD - indications, techniques and results -- The "Rendezvous"- principle in endoscopic and surgical procedures -- Percutaneous endoscopic intragastric surgery in the treatment of stromal tumors at esophagogastric junction -- Endoscopic-Surgical Platforms -- The Fortimedix Surgical Endo-surgery Platform -- Techniques and Challenges with the Master-Slave System for Endoscopic Surgery -- Transgastric intraabdominal Surgery -- Endoscopic Platforms -- Transanal Microsurgery TEM and TEO -- Transanal Endoscopic Colon Resections -- The Medrobotics Platform for transanal surgery -- The potential of single site surgery -- New Single Site Platforms -- Intraoperative imaging for procedures of the gastrointestinal tract -- Fluorescence-Guided Surgery of the Biliary Tree Utilizing Indocyanine Green (ICG) -- ICG Image-Guided Surgery with the Assessment for Anastomotic Safety -- Advanced endoscopic imaging methods -- The struggle to from idea to product -- Artificial Intelligence.