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Surgical Robots With Tactile Force Feedback Allow Surgeons to Feel Their Cuts.

Dan — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 16:27:15 +0000

Surgical robot 'Sofie' has force feedback to allow surgeons to feel their cuts. An important advancement for medical science and robotic surgery.

RP-7 Robot Allows Doctors to be Remotely Present

Dan — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:59:43 +0000

Doctors can remotely interact with patients through a person size, mobile robotic platform made by InTouch Technologies, Inc. InTouch's robot, the RP-7 and RP-7i allow doctors to communicate via video and audio from anywhere in the world. The platform can even link directly to medical devices, allowing the doctor to remotely view real time patient data.

Robots May Soon Perform Autopsies

Dan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:42:21 +0000

Robots are already used all over medicine. For example,medical teaching robots. Why not let them do autopsies too? The idea is that robots can be more precise than humans can, so they will be better at completing an accurate autopsy report. Humans miss things, robots don't.

Robotic Hand Allows Man to Grasp Objects and “Feel” – Video

Dan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:49:41 +0000

Interesting. This robotic hand connects to nerve endings via electronic sensors. This allows the robotic hand and human to actually have some ability to feel what it is grasping. The hook in the beginning looks a little primitive. The new and improved hand appears to work much better. Mapping the nerves down to specific fingers looks like it needs more work, though. Still a great improvement over the original hook! Perhaps in the future a better brain implant will able better to relay the correct instructions from the brain to a fully functional robotic hand. This one has already been in the works for ten years! Maybe in another ten it will be perfect?

A team of scientists from Italy and Sweden has developed what is believed to be the first artificial hand that has feeling. It has been attached to the arm of a 22-year-old man who lost his own hand through cancer. Researchers say it works by connecting human nerve endings with tiny electronic sensors.

Medical Robot Helps Teach Aspiring Dentists

Dan — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:00:06 +0000

A robot named Simroid allows dental students to interact with a realistic, robotic patient. Simroid can sense pain, listen to the student, and even talk back to the student, making it a very realistic robot.

Similar medical robots have been used in other areas of medicine, like the robot that gives birth. Medical robots are becoming and important part of training aspiring doctors and nurses with the skills and practice they need to handle real patients.