Surgical Robot

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A robot that assists surgeons, usually by letting a doctor teleoperate robotic arms from a console.

A surgical robot is a robotic system that assists a surgeon in performing an operation. The dominant design is leader-follower teleoperation: the surgeon sits at a console viewing a magnified 3D endoscopic image and moves a set of master controls, while follower robotic arms beside the patient scale down the motion, filter out hand tremor, and carry it out, guiding slender instruments through small incisions into the body. The best-known example is Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci system, approved by the U.S. FDA for laparoscopic surgery in 2000; there are also specialized systems for orthopedics, neurosurgery, and vascular intervention, including several Chinese-made systems that have received regulatory approval. Almost none of these systems make autonomous decisions today, but they've generated large amounts of teleoperation data, and researchers use the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) to explore tasks such as autonomous suturing.

ExampleProcedures like prostate removal in urology are among the most common uses of the da Vinci system.

Also called: Robot-Assisted Surgery System
Related: da Vinci Surgical System / da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK) · Leader-Follower Teleoperation · Teleoperation · Bilateral Teleoperation · Special-purpose Robot · Service Robot
Sources: Wikipedia: Robot-assisted surgery