Eye surgery system from Univ. Eindhoven

"Researcher Thijs Meenink et al. at TU/e has developed a smart eye-surgery robot that allows eye surgeons to operate with increased ease and greater precision on the retina and the vitreous humor of the eye." It consists of a custom developed dual-joysticked master unit (from Ron Hendrix) and a two-armed "slave" robotic module. Basic features include:

• Tremor filtering
• 1:10 motion scaling
• Haptic feedback
• RCM mechanism
• Tools of a diameter of 0.5 millimeter (forceps, scissors and drains)
• Fast instrument changing

You can see a short video on the range of motions here. Or learn about the system through Thijs' publications.

Source: TU/e, Gizmag
Ed.: Since  I've know Thijs for a while, more details to come soon.