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17 Jun 2002
Physicians want robotic devices that can hold laparoscopic cameras or other delicate equipment during surgery with more precision and without human fatigue. Such devices might be controlled by voice command or foot pedals.
Other proposed tools could provide accurate navigation through sensitive areas, such as the brain; automate procedures such as precision milling during hip surgery to perfect alignment and improve natural bonding of bones to implants, reducing complications; and, with computerized controls, augment a surgeon's dexterity.
Plans for new surgical simulations, image-guided therapies, robotics and teleinterventions are described in a new 135-page report that summarizes the findings of the Second International Workshop on Robotics and Computer Assisted Medical Interventions.
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