James Emmanuel, a South Florida father, received a second chance at life thanks to a kidney donated by his own daughter, Gaelle Merryman. The procedure was groundbreaking as it was led and guided by Dr. Adarsh Vijay, surgical director of the Abdominal Transplant program at the Memorial Transplant Institute. This is the first time a robot has been used in South Florida to perform a robotic kidney transplant. The hospital recently integrated a new device in the operating room, a robot called the da Vinci 5, to reduce patient recovery time.