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  • Precision robot arms maneuver microsurgical instruments through centimeter-long holes into the heart of a cadaver in a demonstration of minimally invasive surgery at Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, California. The whole ensemble: console, tools, and operating table, was developed by the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, a nonprofit R&D center created by Stanford University. The system was commercialized by Intuitive Surgical of Mountain View, Calif.; it now costs about $1 million. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 6-7. Intuitive Surgical Incorporated, based in California, USA, designed Da Vinci.
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  • Burying his face in a 3-D viewing system, Volkmar Falk of the Leipzig Herzzentrum (Germany's most important cardiac center) explores the chest cavity of a cadaver with the da Vinci robotic surgical system. Thomas Krummel (standing), chief of surgery at Stanford University's teaching hospital, observes the procedure on a monitor displaying images from a pair of tiny cameras in one of the three "ports" Falk has cut into the cadaver. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 176.
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  • Robot surgery. Surgeon (lower left) performing minimally invasive surgery (MIS) on a patient's heart using da Vinci, a remotely-controlled robot surgeon (centre right). The surgeon views a three- dimensional image of the operation site in the black box at left. The robot arms are controlled using instruments under the box. An endoscopic view of the area from the robot is seen at upper right. Another surgeon is examining chest X-rays at upper left. The da Vinci system allows precise control of surgical tools through an incision just 1cm wide, with greater control than manual MIS procedures. Da Vinci was designed by Intuitive Surgical Incorporated, based in California, USA.
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  • At an early-morning procedure at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, PA., Anthony M. DiGioia (center) uses HipNav, a computerized navigation system he developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon's Center for Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery, to replace the hip of a 50-year-old Pittsburgh man. Aligning the new hip properly, DiGioia explains, is necessary to avoid surgical complications. Here DiGioia, a former robotics student, uses the intra-operative guidance system and a simple "aim and shoot" interface to emplace the new hip. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 177.
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  • Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of this artificial body part at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. Robo sapiens Project.
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  • Metal posts placed precisely using a robotic system provide a stable anchor for magnetic attachment of artificial body parts at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
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  • A robotic apparatus that allows for precision surgical drilling, created by Jojumarie Intelligent Instruments Company GMBH, Berlin, Germany.
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  • Researcher Olaf Shermeier shows an oral implant that is guided and precisely placed by a dental robot at Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
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  • Researcher Tim Leuth and surgeon Martin Klein with a medical robot called a "SurgiScope" at the Virchow Campus Clinic, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. The SurgiScope is an image guided surgery support device comprised of a robotic tool holder, advanced image handling software and a position sensor. The robotic system can be used for surgical planning and interoperative guidance.
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  • Video control room of (closed-circuit) televised cardiac conference in Leipzig, Germany enabling surgeons to view the latest techniques during live parallel surgical procedures which are transmitted to a nearby hotel conference center for viewing on huge screens by doctors attending the conference.
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  • Monitor view of heart surgeons watching their progress while performing minimally invasive heard surgery during a cardiac conference at Herzzentrum: Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany.
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  • Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments, attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms, will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies.
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  • Robotic surgical implements used by the da Vinci robot surgeon during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Da Vinci is a remotely controlled robot, which gives surgeons precise control over surgical tools through an incision just one centimeter wide. The surgeon, who views the surgical site through the robot's endoscope attachment, controls the robot's arms. Such remote control gives more precise manipulation of tools than in manual surgery. Intuitive Surgical Incorporated designed Da Vinci in California, USA.
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  • Operating room staff watch video monitors as surgeon Volkmar Falk performs a coronary artery bypass graft using Intuitive Surgical's tele-manipulated surgical manipulator system. Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. Falk can hear his assistant surgeon in the operating room via a room speaker overhead. He speaks to him over the microphone taped to his surgical garb, which is in turn piped into the operating room. While Falk is sitting at the console, he is not sterile and therefore isn't in a surgical gown as are the assistants who are with the patients. Stefan Jakobs, the assistant surgeon, watches the monitor to follow Falk's progress in the operation.
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  • Dr. Volkmar Falk performs robotic surgery on a patient from controls in the next room at the Herzzentrum Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany. (Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany. The assistant surgeon has incised small holes into the patient's chest wall through which the instruments-attached to sterile plastic covered manipulating arms-will pass and be telemanipulated by the surgeon in the next room. The room in which the surgeon is working is a less sterile work environment than that of the operating room where the patient lies. It is much like an office; phones are ringing, there is heavy foot traffic and personal conversation-at times at crescendo level.
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  • Engineer Chris Julian of robotic surgical systems company, Intuitive Surgical of Mountainview, California, watches heart surgeons perform robotic cardiac surgery and sketches improvements and modifications to the system. Herzzentrum Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany
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  • At an early-morning procedure at Shadyside Hospital in Pittsburgh, Anthony M. DiGioia (center) uses HipNav, a computerized navigation system he developed in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon's Center for Medical Robotics and Computer-Assisted Surgery, to replace the hip of a 50-year-old Pittsburgh man. Aligning the new hip properly, DiGioia explains, is necessary to avoid surgical complications. Here DiGioia, a former robotics student, uses the intra-operative guidance system and a simple "aim and shoot" interface to emplace the new hip. Robo Sapiens page 177.
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  • Surgeon Anno Diegeler completes a cardiac surgery using traditional methods, after the decision is made to switch from the use of a minimally invasive robotic technique at the Herzzentrum Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany. Visiting doctors watch surgeon Volkmar Falk perform a coronary artery bypass graft on a patient lying in the adjoining room, using a tele-manipulated surgical system (called a robotic system by some) designed by Intuitive Surgical Corporation of Mountainview, California, at the Herzzentrum, Leipzig, Germany.
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