Objective: to develop a technique of robot-assisted (RA) distal pancreatectomy (DP) and to evaluate its efficiency. Subjects and methods. 38 robot-assisted DPs were made in the period between 2010 and 2015. The patients’ mean age was 46.4±14.2 years. There were 32 (84.2%) women and 6 (15.8%) men. Results. Spleen-sparing operations for benign or low-grade malignant tumors were performed in 24 patients. DP with splenectomy was carried out in 14 patients with ductal adenocarcinoma and when the spleen could not be technically preserved. The time required for surgery was 215.3±67.1 min; the amount of intraoperative blood loss was 274.2±113.6 ml, the number of removed lymph nodes involved by pancreatic adenocarcinoma ranged from 15 to 21. Postoperative complications (external pancreatic fistula) occurred in 14 (36.8%) patients; 2 out of them had bleeding. One female patient died from postoperative necrotizing pancreatitis. Conclusion. The indications for RA DP are malignant tumors (T1-T2), neuroendocrine, cystic, and solid pseudopapillary tumors less than 5-6 cm in size. RA DP cannot prevent specific postoperative complications that are characteristic of pancreatic surgery.