Yes, it is robotic surgery. Very expensive but I recently discovered DVA is covering all my cost.
I was up all night the night before my operation looking at different options on the internet so I could avoid the surgery, and I even told them at the hospital in the morning when they were ready to wheel me into the operating room that I still wasn't sure I wanted to go thru with it, so I delayed the operation by around 30 minutes.
Now several years later, I have zero doubt that having the operation was by far the best thing for me to do because I was pretty young and not ready to kick the bucket any time soon.
As far as botched/failed prostate operations go, they are virtually unheard of when the robot is used, so there is nothing to worry about there.
The drugs they use these days to put people to sleep are incredible. I had 2 operations a few years apart and, both times I woke up just feeling a little tired but not dizzy at all and not sick to my stomach, and the tiredness from the drugs wore off after a couple hours.
They even had me get up and walk down the hall a few hours after the operation. I only had a mild, dull pain that was easily tolerable, and it was so mild that I never took any pain medication. It was easy to walk right away, but I suggest that you take SMALL steps. As I mentioned earlier, you will feel much better right away than you really are, so it is easy to forget you just had a substantial operation, so just keep reminding yourself that you should not even think about lifting a gallon of milk or moving quickly etc for probably at least 30 days. Believe me, I know, and if you do over strain yourself, you will greatly regret it. Just look at it like a brief vacation where you get to have others do your bidding for a while.
Let us know how you feel when you are up to it.
PS - Also, if you get bored during your recovery and have a computer, there are a bazillion free movies you can watch on youtube.