Comments on: Robot Surgery Is Safe, But No Better Than Regular Surgery for Children, Says Report.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 01:29:44 +0000

Yes, you may use it! Be aware that many photos are the work of other people licensed under creative commons attribution or non-commercial. You will be fine using any of these in a project.

By: Raquel Joyce Joco Reyes

Raquel Joyce Joco Reyes — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 19:25:00 +0000

To whom it may concern:

Hi! I am a Nursing student from Clemson University and I am completing a project about Robotic Surgery. I found a robotic surgery photo from your website. May I have your permission to use it?

Thank you and Sincerely,
Raquel Reyes
Clemson University- Nursing student

By: Surgical Robots With Tactile Force Feedback Allow Surgeons to Feel Their Cuts. | Robotics Blog

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:27:24 +0000

[...] This technology was developed so that surgeons would know how much resistance and back pressure tissue was giving. The robot, named Sofie, is smaller and more compact than other surgical robots like the Da Vinci Surgical Robot. [...]

By: robots

robots — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:03:17 +0000

A robot is robot we can’t trust on its mechanism ofter all if it’s dealing in surgery then we must think of it very well other wise what will happen will happen

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:16:17 +0000

I think you’re right that it doesn’t seem like a large cost for a hospital to pay in comparison to other costs, but hospitals would still have to pay out over a million dollars up front, train surgeons, and agree to a $100k/yr maintenance agreement, all on top of additional expenses. Buying one might be hard to justify if the budget is small and the benefit of their use wasn’t universal, as the study in Pediatrics suggests.

These robots are supposed to be super good for minimally invasive hysterectomies and prostatectomies, so I suppose that they will soon be used widely because of success in those areas.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:25:42 +0000

Don’t top-end doctors get paid in the neighborhood of half a million dollars a year? MRI machines are several million dollars as well. I imagine these will be slow in the uptake with results information like this, but cost isn’t really the limiting factor at this point.