{"id":30649,"date":"2016-09-30T13:47:18","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T20:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/robotic-surgery-tech-provides-users-with-a-sense-of-touch"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:12:25","slug":"robotic-surgery-tech-provides-users-with-a-sense-of-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/robotic-surgery-tech-provides-users-with-a-sense-of-touch","title":{"rendered":"Robotic surgery tech provides users with a sense of touch"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A new system called HeroSurg, developed by researchers at Deakin and Harvard Universities, is set to increase what surgeons can achieve via robotic surgery, using a haptic feedback system to provide a sense of touch. It also brings other improvements over existing tech, such as collision avoidance, to make robotic surgery safer and more accurate.<\/p>\n

Robotic surgery, wherein human-controlled robots perform delicate surgical tasks, has been around for a while. One great example of the tech is the da Vinci robotic surgical system from Intuitive Surgical<\/a> \u2013 a setup made up of numerous robotic arms, a console to operate the instruments, and an imaging system that shows the surgeon what\u2019s happening in real time. In 2008, Professor Suren Krishnan, a member of the team behind HeroSurg, became the first surgeon to perform ear, throat and nose operations using the da Vinci robotic surgical system.<\/p>\n

Since then, we\u2019ve seen numerous breakthroughs, including improvements to the original da Vinci system<\/a>, and other robots emerging capable of achieving impressive tasks, such as performing surgery on a beating heart<\/a>, or successfully stitching soft tissue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A new system called HeroSurg, developed by researchers at Deakin and Harvard Universities, is set to increase what surgeons can achieve via robotic surgery, using a haptic feedback system to provide a sense of touch. It also brings other improvements over existing tech, such as collision avoidance, to make robotic surgery safer and more accurate. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66116,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30649\/revisions\/66116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}