Minimally invasive, as the name suggests, refers to a surgical wound that is smaller than that produced by a conventional surgery, an ideal that has been the goal of surgeons. Surgery has always advanced in the direction of a mission to maintain and restore the physiological functions of the human body. All surgeons are well aware that when a surgery is performed to treat a disease, the surgical wound itself should be smaller than that from the disease, so as to meet the principle of beneficence, and on this basis, further reducing the surgical wound will benefit patients more. In the late twentieth century, along with the introduction of endoscopy, the concept of minimally invasive surgery was rapidly established and widely disseminated, and soon it became feasible and practicable. After nearly 30 years of development, thoracic surgery has already entered an era of "video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS)", and minimally invasive thoracic surgical techniques have increasingly become mature. This Robotic Thoracic Surgery: Ruijin Hospital Experience, covering almost all current mainstream operations for thoracic diseases, summarizes the successful robotic operations in hundreds of patients in the Department of Thoracic Surgery of Ruijin Hospital. As an illustrated guide, it is highly informative and practical. Limited by the amount of surgical equipment, robotic thoracic surgery has not yet been fully popularized in China, however, we can foresee its accelerated development in the coming decade. Teaching and learning as a bi-directional activity.