Detail An Open-Source Robo-Surgeon   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8774 (Mar. 2012), page s5-s6. Topik: Robot; Stimulating Innovation; Da Vinci Surgical System; Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.70 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Blake Hannaford and his colleagues at the University of Washington, in Seattle, are about to release a flock of medical robots with wing-like arms, called Ravens, in the hope of stimulating innovation in the nascent field of robotic surgery. Robot-assisted surgery today is dominated by the da Vinci Surgical System, a device that scales down a surgeon's hand movements to let him make tiny incisions. That leads to less tissue damage, and thus a quicker recovery for patients. But the da Vinci is far from perfect. It is immobile and weighs more than half a tonne, which limits its deploy ability, and it costs $1.8m, which puts it beyond the reach of all but the richest institutions. It also uses proprietary software. None of that is true of the Raven. Originally developed for the American army by Dr Hannaford and Jacob Rosen of the University of California, Santa Cruz, as a prototype for robotic surgery on the battlefield, it is compact, light and cheap (relatively speaking) at around $250,000. More importantly for academics, it is also the first surgical robot to use open-source software. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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