Our great friends at Worcester Polytechnic Institute's Automation and Interventional Medicine (AIM) Robotics Research Laboratory (lead by Greg Fisher) have been developing generations of MR compatible robots. Hao Su presented their latest results at SPIE:
- A networked modular hardware and software system for MRI-guided robotic prostate interventions, and another one,
- A high accuracy multi-image registration method for tracking MRI- guided robots.
- 6-DOF Cylindrical Approach Prostate Intervention Robot
- 6-DOF Conical Approach Prostate Intervention Robot
- MRI-compatible Concentric Tube Robot
A cool video on their da Vinci slave platform:
1 comment:
I think the ability to use robots for surgery is fantastic. Smaller and more precise tools involve smaller cuts and incisions and can help a lot of people by reducing healing recovery time.
P.S. I just finished a workshop about robotic assisted surgeries and so I think this stuff is pretty cool.
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