How would you feel if the surgeon performing an endoscopic procedure on you was naked… and on another continent? Sounds good, right?
Well, that may happen soon, thanks to telepresence surgery.
Entries Tagged as 'Robotics'
SAGES Report: The patient and you, miles apart
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Ian Drexler
Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons
April 11th, 2008, at 7:01pm · 2 Comments
Tags: Endoscopes · Robotics
SAGES Report: NOTES-deployed mini robot turns surgery into Game Boy
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Christopher Kelly
April 11th, 2008, at 6:43pm · No Comments
In an earlier post, we explored one combination of robotics and NOTES that involved deploying da Vinci instrumentation through transvaginal and transcolonic trocars.
At the NOTES symposium at SAGES today, Dr. Dmitry Oleynikov of the University of Nebraska Medical Center upped the technological ante even further, debuting a new mini robot that is contained entirely within the […]
Tags: Emerging · Endoscopes · General surgery · Robotics · Uncategorized
Rise of the machines: the da Vinci is getting smarter
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Ian Drexler
Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons
March 24th, 2008, at 1:20pm · No Comments
A recent article details several new features being developed for the da Vinci robot by researchers at the Imperial College of London. In other news, machines are rapidly overtaking man.
Tags: Emerging · Endoscopes · General surgery · Robotics · Technologies and devices · Thoracic surgery · Urology
