The future of robotics

The future of robotics

Robotics and the Future of Laparoscopy

The early anatomists risked their lives to exhume fresh cadavers in order to do dissections and thereby discover anatomy based on reality and not on theory as was advocated at that time by the scholastics, who were supported by the church. For example, the scholastics believed that the number of teeth a cow had could be deduced theoretically, and they refused to go out to the pasture, open the ...

euRobotics - Shaping the future of European robotics

Rainer Bischoff, Tim Guhl, Anne Wendel, Fariba Khatami, Herman Bruyninckx, Bruno Siciliano, Geoff Pegman, Martin Hägele, Erwin Prassler, Thilo Zimmermann, Jon Agirre Ibarbia, Christophe Leroux, Bruno Tranchero, Roberto Labruto, Alois Knoll, Reinhard Lafrenz 1 KUKA Roboter GmbH, Augsburg, Germany 2 EUnited aisbl, Brussels, Belgium 3 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium 4 Università de...

Robotics, Technology, and the Future of Surgery

and the creative use of the newly developed solid state, charge coupled device (CCD) cameras, laparoscopes, clip appliers, and energy sources enabled the laparoscopic revolution of the 1990s. And, without doubt, evolving technology will sustain the development of minimally invasive surgery. But the technology that fueled the laparoscopic revolution is aged and now hinders further advances in th...

Robotics in Spinal Surgery : The Future is

A spinal surgery has evolved, new techniques have been developed to address complex pathologies through smaller anatomical corridors, leading to better outcomes. Surgical procedures of the spine benefit from fine motor coordination, a highly experienced surgeon, and the best available technology,5,9,45 and it is clear that surgical robotic systems have established a foothold in medicine as an e...