Origins of Surgical Robotics: From Space to the Operating Room

• DOI: 10.12700/aph.13.1.2016.1.3
• Publication Date: 2016-01-11T04:36:11Z
• Authors: Árpád Takács; Dénes Ákos Nagy; Imre J. Rudas; Tamás Haidegger; Antal K. Bejczy
• Keywords: Telerobotics; Surgical robot; Medical robotics

The rapid development of telerobotic systems led to novel applications beyond the nuclear and industrial domains.Medical telerobotics enabled surgeons perform medical operations from remote places, far their patient.Telesurgery allow great flexibility, improved performance in general, support creation ideal surgical conditions.The first attempts develop telesurgical borrowed idea space research, where need robots emerged for invasive treatment, even under extreme situations, such as weightlessness.Telesurgical instruments on Earth appeared following same concept, aiming military, then onward civilian applications.Today, more than 1.5 million patients are receiving treatment annually, worldwide.As robotics domain grew initial concepts, it developed along three major concepts: telesurgery, cooperatively controlled automated (image-guided) applications.These domains continue into application specific with goal reaching specificity versatility conventional instruments.