Sunday, February 28, 2016

Automatic Suturing by Robotic Surgical System



At Case Western Reserve University engineers are working on integrating autonomous suturing abilities into the da Vinci robotically-assisted surgical system from Intuitive Surgical. The team managed to purchase a used da Vinci on eBay and are now developing autonomous algorithms to control the device while doing routine suturing. Here’s a couple of the team members presenting their project:


Source: http://www.medgadget.com

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