Robot-Assisted Microsurgery Systems

Robot-assisted surgical system components. The dotted arrow indicates that the surgeon may not have the possibility to directly interact with the patient during surgery. 

The da Vinci system presents, however, several drawbacks related to its application in microsurgeries. These include the large size of the system and the associated requirement for a large operating room the high acquisition and operative costs (associated with 

The da Vinci surgical system. (Courtesy of Intuitive Surgical Inc., Sunnyvale, California.) 

(Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Califorrda Institute of Technology, La Canada Flintridge, California.) 

Steady-hand eye robot evolution (a) original version from 1999 and (b) Eye Robot 2.1 design from 2012. (Courtesy of the Computer Integrated Interventional Systems Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.) 

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The Virtual Scalpel robot-assisted laser microsurgery system. (Courtesy of the Department of Advanced Robotics, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy.)... 

Mitsuishi M, Watanabe T, Nakanishi H, Hoti T, Watanabe H, Kramer B. A tele-microsurgery system with co-located view and operation points and a rotational-force-feedback-free master manipulator. In Proceedings 2nd International Symposium medical robotics and computer assisted surgery 1995. p. 111-8. 

L. S. Matfos, G. Dagnino, G. Becattini, M. Dellepiane, and D. Caldwell, "A virtual scalpel system for computer-assisted laser microsurgery," Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Intelligent Robots Syst, IROS 2011, September 2011. 

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