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posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 21 2015, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the healing-from-afar dept.

[translation mine] Da Vinci is a robot that is completely piloted by a surgeon. It enables the achievement of an extreme precision of gesture during certain delicate procedures, all while reducing the risks associated with a surgeon's trembling hands.

Comfortably seated in his pilot's chair, a specialist can also undertake a "tele-operation" on a patient located thousands of kilometers away. It gives patients access to better specialists while limiting the fatigue of the practitioner and reducing costs associated with travel.

The robot is composed of a stereoscopic camera and mechanical arms that have instruments attached for a procedure.

In this video from Youtube, watch as Da Vinci sews a cut in a grape.

Does anyone have any experience with tele-operations?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @09:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @09:17AM (#226205)

    I would say "in an odd turn of events" but my life has a history of odd events, my wife and I decided to take a trip to the mall on a whim. I was estatic to see a monstrously large device, which I immediately recognized as a DiVinci robot, sitting in one of the commons areas. I approached and realized they were actually letting people try it out! I couldn't believe the luck! A completely once in a lifetime opportunity, to say the least. To think, if we had decided to just go on home without stopping in at the mall, a place we normally shun, I may never have had the opportunity to do what I did next. I sat down and put my head in the viewport. It took me a moment for my eyes to adjust to the three diminisional image in the viewport but once my brain had the hang of decoding the information, I felt like I was looking at a normal sized object in front of me. If you look on youtube you'll likely find the small practice object with the brightly colored rubber projections I saw before me. There were a few small objects in and around the rubber pieces. I slipped my fingers into the two rings on each control arm and pinched the air ahead of me a few times to get the feel for it. It was like an extension of my own body. I couldn't believe how smoothly it responded or how easy it was to control. I passed a few of the objects back and forth from pincher to pincher. I picked up a ring and moved it from protrusion to protrusion, flipping it over between each pass. I took a piece of a dollar bill from the practice table and folded it neatly into a small square. I felt like I could have performed a bypass right there on the spot. The technician was even slightly impressed at how quickly I picked up on it. I can't take all the credit though, after all, that machine is a marvel of engineering, interface design, haptic feedback, and intuitive control. Unfortunately, I'm weary of my security here considering my access method so it's doubtful I'll ever be back to answer any questions but I assure you that this machine is an amazing piece of technological art and if you EVER have the chance to take it for a spin, do NOT pass up the opportunity.