Робот в качестве хирурга для операций на глаза может быть настоящей революцией. At least the first attempt was successful.
Medical operations, and especially the most complex require the surgeon perfect accuracy and precision of hand movements. And that even if a qualified doctor is too small? Then he comes to the aid of a robot.
The Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital the world's first eye surgery was performed, in which not a surgeon controls the instruments, and the robot. The objective was to remove the mucous, which grew in front of the retina, causing visual disturbances. The membrane had a thickness more or less than one hundredth of a millimeter, and it should have been cut from the retina, without damaging the latter.
Until now, these operations have been associated with great risk. Sami surgeons had to perform movements between heartbeats. In turn, the robot-surgeon devoid of heart and trembling hands. In this case, the robot handled without problems and at the same time twice as fast, than conventional surgery.
Robot surgeon creates a Danish enterprise Preceyes BV under the naming, which is sure to make you smile - R2D2(the name of the robot from Star Wars). It is short for Robotic Retinal Dissection Device. This operation was only the first of the twelve - so much to go through clinical trials robot, to be officially launched on the market. Further attempts will be more and more difficult.
"We already have the technology and powerful laser scanners allow mikroskopy.Oni observe retinal diseases in the micro scale, because we are not able to see them, as well as the human hand is not able to perform the surgery because of physiological limitations. Robots offer us a new chapter in the history of eye surgery " , - said Professor Robert MacLaren, R2D2 control during the first operation,.
