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Dexterous Robotic Tools
OBJECTIVE: Improve clinical outcomes of current procedures and enable new procedures through the development of more dexterous and smaller surgical tools.
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Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery (NOTES)
- Designed endoscopic tools capable of navigating through tortuous paths and performing complex surgical tasks
- Incorporated novel technologies to navigate to surgical target, change stiffness, and actuate dexterous surgical manipulators
- Integrated miniature surgical tools with the necessary dexterity to conduct surgical tasks
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Artificial Muscle Actuator
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Robotic Laser Tissue Welding
- Integrated laser tissue welding with robotic surgery
- Breakthrough in size, dexterity, and precision of laparoscopic tools
- Improved performance of laser tissue welding bonds
- Precise tissue apposition
- Consistent solder delivery
- Consistent power delivery
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Robotic Laser Tissue Welding
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M7 Robotic Surgery Manipulator
- Designed dual 7-DOF lightweight arms for open surgery
- Implemented master-slave control and autonomous operation
- Developed high-definition haptic control with full stereo video
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Open Robotic Surgery System
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Modular Robotic Surgical Platform
- Designed open robotic surgery platform with a master/slave configuration
- Enables interchangeable hardware
- Communicates over Ethernet
- Made portable for field deployment and installation
- Tested platform in extreme environments
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Modular Robotic Surgical Platform
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Robotic Microsurgery System
- Designed high resolution manipulators (7 um)
- Used standard microsurgery tools and custom miniature tools
- Scaled of motion, force, vision
- Eliminates tremor
- Enhances dexterity
- Increases force feedback to operator
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Robotic Microsurgery System
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Miniature Surgical Tools
- Designed multidegree-of-freedom miniature surgical tools
- Embedded miniature motor drives
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5 mm Micro-Wrist
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R&D Divisions