Mobile Surgery Robot



Can you believe you being operated in an ‘Operation Theater’ with no doctors around to do your surgery! Rather, it is a robot doing al the jobs of a ‘human’ doctor with all the tools. Yes, very soon the OTs will be dominated by unmanned surgical robot.



Hats off to a team of U.S. Army’s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center and the University of Washington in Seattle experts. It is making all efforts to make remote surgery, or telesurgery, a reality. It is using an unmanned aircraft and sophisticated communication tools to replace surgeons with robots.



A prototype communications platform for mobile telesurgery (high-altitude platforms for mobile robotic telesurgery) HAPsMRT uses an ‘unmanned airborne vehicle’, which connects the communication between a surgeon in one part of the country and a patient hundreds of kilometers away. Isn’t it amazing?



It is between June 5 and 9, two-phase telesurgery experiment are carried out in a desolate and arid area between the western state of California and the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest — surrounded by hills and plains.



Via: The Sop