A robotic surgical system comprising: a plurality of robotic arms (2, 3), each having a plurality of degrees of freedom and each including a plurality of members connectedly arranged to provide the plurality of degrees of freedom; an image capture device attached to a surgical assembly of a first of the robotic arms and configured to be inserted into a patient and capture an image of a region of interest inside the patient during a surgical procedure; a surgical instrument attached to a surgical assembly of a second of the robotic arms configured to be inserted into a patient and manipulate tissue inside the patient during the surgical procedure; an input device (7, 8) configured to manipulate at least one of the image capture device attached to the first robotic arm and the surgical instrument attached to the second robotic arm during the surgical procedure; an image processing filter and controller configured to filter image data from the captured image at a predetermined spatial frequency and to generate an augmented image to enhance a perceptibility of a property of the object and output the augmented image data; a display configured to display the augmented image during the surgical procedure; and a control device configured to: identify the surgical instrument attached to the second robotic arm; and characterized in that it is configured to select the image processing filter from a plurality of image processing filters based on the identification of the surgical instrument. a plurality of robotic arms (2, 3), each having a plurality of degrees of freedom and each including a plurality of members connectedly arranged to provide the plurality of degrees of freedom; an image capture device attached to a surgical assembly of a first of the robotic arms and configured to be inserted into a patient and capture an image of a region of interest inside the patient during a surgical procedure; a surgical instrument attached to a surgical assembly of a second of the robotic arms configured to be inserted into a patient and manipulate tissue inside the patient during the surgical procedure; an input device (7, 8) configured to manipulate at least one of the image capture device attached to the first robotic arm and the surgical instrument attached to the second robotic arm during the surgical procedure; an image processing filter and controller configured to filter image data from the captured image at a predetermined spatial frequency and to generate an augmented image to enhance a perceptibility of a property of the object and output the augmented image data; a display configured to display the augmented image during the surgical procedure; and a control device configured to: identify the surgical instrument attached to the second robotic arm; and characterized in that it is configured to select the image processing filter from a plurality of image processing filters based on the identification of the surgical instrument. identify the surgical instrument attached to the second robotic arm; and characterized in that it is configured to select the image processing filter from a plurality of image processing filters based on the identification of the surgical instrument.