Wednesday, November 19, 2008

MIT Students Design Robot Surgeons

Filed under: Surgery

When we took robotics in college we worked at best on little robotic cars. When MIT students do it, they develop surgical robotic arms:

MIT students will take to the operating table next Monday, Nov. 24, to show off their robotic engineering skills in the final presentations for Course 2.12 (Introduction to Robotics).

Four teams of students have spent the past seven weeks building robotic arms and writing software that will allow them to remotely make an incision in a silicone "organ" and remove a jelly bean masquerading as a tumor.

MIT students will take to the operating table next Monday, Nov. 24, to show off their robotic engineering skills in the final presentations for Course 2.12 (Introduction to Robotics).

Four teams of students have spent the past seven weeks building robotic arms and writing software that will allow them to remotely make an incision in a silicone "organ" and remove a jelly bean masquerading as a tumor.

Hopefully we'll be seeing a whole new generation of robotic surgery once these young geniuses graduate to the workplace.

MIT News: Going under the (robotic) knife ...

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