We cannot pass by the fact that many surgical robots got discontinued over the decades and disappeared form the market for various reasons. In our recent IJARS article, we forged a list of defunct companies/systems.
Surgical robotics archives vol.4
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IMRIS goes bankrupt--taking down neuroArm
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CIS news
- First clinical procedure with the Magellan 10Fr Robotic Catheter
- Redesigned RoSS II Robotic Surgery Simulator
- Introduction to Stereotaxis EPOCH magnetic robot
- Simbionix RobotiX Mentor prostate trainer
- New Company Presentation form Intuitive
- MAKO: A Robot That Cuts into Your Body
- LISA Laser's RevoLix Jr 5mm 5 Fr. Introducer Instrument for the da Vinci
- The origins of SPORT's tool at Columbia University
- New company presentation from Titan Medical
- Robotic Surgery – A Personal View of the Past, Present and Future, from Brian Davies
- A new KUL, UCL robot to treat cogenital disorders in the womb
- Octopus-inspired flexible MIS tools
- A nice ARAKNES article
- Sweet deal: used da Vinci Classic for cheap
- More details on the NTU NOTES robot
- Microbots on the rise
- Microrobitcs papers at ICRA
- New market prognosis for surgical robotics: $20 billion by 2021
- Hamlyn is coming along with a lot of exciting workshops
- You could still submit a video to the Hamlyn Robotic Challenge
- 2nd MICCAI Workshop on Computer-Assisted and Robotic Endoscopy (CARE)
- PhD Position in Surgical Robotics at the University of Verona
- Opening Position: Specialist in medical robotics at CESTER, TU Cluj-Napoca,
- 7th Summer School in Surgical Robotics in Montpellier 2015
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Survey on surgical robotics--part 3
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Surgical Robotics at IEEE TV
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IROS workshop on (medical) robotics benchmarking
********************* Call for Contribution *********************
We invite workshop participants to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) in PDF and IEEE format. For templates and examples follow the link http://ras.papercept.net/conferences/support/support.php . The abstracts will be presented as posters in a dedicated slot during our workshop. Alternatively, workshop participants can submit a poster only. Those posters will be presented in the same poster session as extended abstract posters. To enable us a structured planning of the workshop day, please submit your poster together with a very short abstract (less than one page). Please submit your contributions to nicole.mirnig@sbg.ac.at no later than July, 15th. All submission will be refereed by the organizing committee of the workshop.
"This workshop aims to advance the topic of standardization of robot experiments in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. The workshop follows up on previous workshops focusing on international robot standardization and benchmarking in the areas of industrial, medical, and personal care robots (ICRA 2013, HRI 2014, IROS 2014 and ERF 2015). While the R&D community produces great amounts of scientific outputs on HRI, the results are scattered in a myriad of different approaches and ways of performing and testing the interaction; metrics which have been used include efficacy, effectiveness, users satisfaction, emotional impact and social components. The main consequence is that results are not comparable and benchmarking of the various approaches proposed is not possible. The community is still missing consensus tools to benchmark robot products (robot producer/industrial perspective) and robot applications (research/academic perspective). Modes are required for the standardized assessment of robot products and applications in use in terms of safety, performance, user experience, and ergonomics. The benefit of agreed approaches and methods to the assessment of HRI is the production of results, so called “normative” data in the standardization community, meaning that they have been formulated via wide consultation in an open and transparent manner."
********************* Important Dates *********************
- Submission: 15th July, 2015
- Notification: 29th July, 2015
- Camera-ready: 26th August, 2015
- Workshop: 28th September, 2015
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Defining metrics for benchmarking HRI
- Safety and physical interactions
- Performance indicators for experiments
- User-experience
- Ergonomics
- Defining standarized scenarios for HRI
- Industrial, medical and personal care robots
- Publicly available datasets for evaluation of HRI
- Robot autonomy levels
SUBMISSION
We invite workshop participants to submit extended abstracts (up to 4 pages) in PDF and IEEE format. For templates and examples follow the linkThe abstracts will be presented as posters in a dedicated slot during our workshop. Alternatively, workshop participants can submit a poster only. Those posters will be presented in the same poster session as extended abstract posters. To enable us a structured planning of the workshop day, please submit your poster together with a short abstract (less than one page).Please submit your abstract to nicole.mirnig@sbg.ac.at.
All submission will be refereed by the organizing committee of the workshop.
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Quiz #15
Unfortunately, no one submitted the right answer for Quiz #13, which was an early prototype (1998) of an EYE Robot from Texas University. As for Quiz #14, you can still submit your answers until the end of the month!
Here is our next, easier question. Name the system above! You can submit your answers to surgrob.blog at gmail.com until July 15.
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SAMSUNG's MIS robot system
SAMSUNG has been working on its own NOTES surgical robot for a while. They have even made some publication (e.g. at last IROS).
"Samsung's invention relates to providing a surgical robot including a surgical instrument configured to easily pass through a bent guide tube. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, in a surgical robot including a slave device provided with a surgical instrument, the surgical instrument includes a body having at least one link that includes a plurality of solenoid segments, and an end effector mounted to one end of the body. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a surgical robot includes a body including a plurality of electromagnetic solenoid segments, where at least a portion of the body becomes rigid or flexible depending on a generated polarity of an energized state of each of the plurality of electromagnetic solenoid segments. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, a method of controlling a surgical robot including a body including a plurality of electromagnetic solenoid segments includes energizing a first portion of the electromagnetic solenoid segments with a first voltage, and energizing a second portion of the electromagnetic solenoid segments with a second voltage, where the plurality of electromagnetic solenoid segments are selectively rigid or flexible depending on the first voltage and the second voltage."
Source: Patently Mobile
Other Korean groups are also active in this domain.
At IROS2013, SAMSUNG has already presented: Modeling and control of robotic surgical platform for single-port access surgery:
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Video Wednesday
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Clinical experience with the ALF-X
As presented in the previous post, ALF-X has already performed a series of human clinical trials. You can find more details about it below:
"So far, Professor Scambia's surgical team has performed about 150 interventions pertaining to hysterectomies and the removal of both ovaries; the patients had an excellent post-operative period void of any complications and a rapid return to their daily activities; no adverse events, intra-operative or remote complications were recorded.
ALF-X is a system that is also characterized as having an excellent cost/benefit ratio due to the re-usability of all the instruments. This is something that could make it a good choice for Institutions and useful for patients, aiming at effective cost management while keeping the highest level of safety and efficacy for both patient and surgeon.
Telelap ALF-X - Giovanni Scambia concludes - is therefore an innovative platform for the development of laparoscopic surgery and opens the door to a new era of minimally invasive surgery. The system is expected to become a valuable aid to the surgeon, offering a higher level of quality and safety during surgical procedures, with expected large-scale use and combining the quality and effectiveness of surgery with low operating costs."
See more:
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Flickstop
The SYMBIS system is now looking for a new master to push the technology to the market, yet here are some recent images from Prof. Sutherland:
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Call for participation: IROS meets MICCAI Workshop
October 5th, 2015 Klinikum rechts der Isar, Munich, Germany
The goal of this workshop is to use the unique opportunity of having the researchers from IROS and MICCAI conferences in the same area to foster exchange and initiate new collaborations between the robotics community (IROS) with medical imaging researchers ar MICCAI. We plan to have multiple talks from leading institutions in the field of medical robotics.
Preliminary Schedule:
Oct 5, 2015 (Klinikum rechts der Isar):8:30 - 10:00: Invited talks (Room tbd. )
10:00 - 10:45: Coffee Break with Demos
10:45 - 12:15: Invited talks (continued) /Panel Discussions?
12:15 - 12:30: Distribution of Lunch Boxes and departure of bus to Garching
Afternoon:13:00 - 14:30: Demos in Garching (eventually split the group in half and do simultaneous demos)
14:30 - 15:15: Bus transportation to DLR
15:15 - 17:00: Demos at DLR
17:00 - 18:00: Bus transportation back to Munich City Center -> Holiday Inn (MICCAI participants need to be back at Holiday Inn for MICCAI poster teaser session)
Contact for details:
Prof. T. Lüth (TUM) tim.lueth@tum.de
Prof. J. Zhang (Uni Hamburg) zhang@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Prof. D. Burschka (TUM) burschka@tum.de
More information on the workshop's website.
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Quote of the day
"Patients would better accept surgical robots if these were pitched assafety mechanisms."
/Lee Swanstrom @Hamlyn15/
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Video Wednesday
See the Micro robot video contest winner from Hamlyn, videos of the Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems Max Planck research group led by Peer Fischer.
A Swimming Micro-Scallop from MNM Intelligent Systems Lab on Vimeo.
A Swimming Micro-Scallop from MNM Intelligent Systems Lab on Vimeo.
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ROSA Spine - new application in MIS spine surgery
The French Medtech company's add-on to its robotics toolset, the ROSA Spine received CE mark last year, and was first purchased by Amiens University Hospital in Amiens, France, where most of the clinical trials took place.
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Quote of the day
"Hospitals will resemble computer-integrated manufacturing facilities, delivering personalized care using standardized processes"
/Russell Taylor @Hamlyn/
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HIWIN: new robotic endoscope holder
HIWIN introduced its robotic endoscope holder at the Medicare Taiwan international medical & healthcare exhibition in May.
"The robot mainly focuses on controlling the position and angle (3-degrees of freedom) of the surgical instruments used during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). By the unique structure (remote center of motion), the robot can steadily hold surgical instruments in the desired positions during surgery."
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Surgical Robotics Forum 2015
The global market for medical robotics and computer-assisted surgical (MRCAS) equipment was worth nearly $2.7 billion in 2013. The market is projected to approach $3.3 billion in 2014 and $4.6 billion by 2019 for a CAGR of 7% for the five-year period, 2014 to 2019. Surgical robots dominate the global MRCAS market, accounting for more than 70%. Robotic devices are extremely complex systems will require considerable amounts of R&D. Government support will therefore be crucial in these next 5 years.
The 2015 Innovative Surgical Robotics Forum was a event jointly organised by the Special Interest Group: Robotics and Autonomous Systems and the EU. Four EU FP7 projects (STIFF-FLOP, μRalp, CASCADE, and ReMeDi) leading the field of surgical robotics will exhibit their latest achievements. During this event, the aim has been to identify market opportunities and the gaps between clinical, academic and industrial communities to establish a multidisciplinary community focused on the subject. We facilitated the exploitation of robotics R&D by bringing together the different stakeholders and created the opportunity to form new partnerships and collaborative relationships.
Here, a summary of the media coverage of the event:
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Special Interest Group, Innovate UK Network
Article in the German online magazine Roboterwelt.de – (translation can be found on the Cavendish Conference Venues website)
Source: Surgical Robotics Forum 2015
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Video Wednesday
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Quote of the day
"The economic structure will be totally disrupted by the introduction of 3D printers, disposable, patient-specific robots."
/Lee Swanstrom @Hamlyn/
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