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Thats awesome.
Similarly, my dad is a orthopaedic surgeon and he is now doing robot assisted computer navigated hip and knee replacements. They take a cat scan of the joint and feed it into the computer, put pins in the bones that have sensors so the computer knows where the joint is in 3 dimensional space and plan out where the prosthesis will go in. Then the surgeon moves the robotic arm and drills out the bone when the implant will be inserted. The robot won't allow the drill bit to go anywhere outside of the space that is supposed to be drilled. The scary part is moving the joint around and watching the arm move with it completely by itself, with 99% accuracy. The technology is already capable of having the robot drill out the bone by itself without the doctor guiding it, but the FDA hasn't cleared that yet. Pretty crazy shit. I got to use it on a cadaver.
Robotics are really starting to creep closer to what we have seen in movies for the past thirty years.
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07-15-2011, 11:18 AM
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