Robotic Surgery

Have you ever undergone a surgey before? Remember an operation scene in films? Remember those scenes of doctors doing operations with sharp scalpels? But doctors are human too. What if they made mistakes? Robotic surgery is the answer to efficient surgery. Can robots do surgery? Sure do!

Meet Da Vinci

This Da Vinci is not the man who painted Monalisa centuries ago. Da Vinci is a surgeon robot which can operate on sick people. This machine still requiress a human surgeon, though, to feed it instructions and to control its operations via remote control and voice activation.

Handy, meticulous Da Vinci

If the Da Vinci still needs human surgeon, what makes it so special? Robots are introduced to the field of surgical therapi because they are very stable in terms of moving their surgical isntruments. They are also very percise in delicate operations. So far, these machines have been used to do sophisticated surgeries, for example operations on internal organs such as the the heart. Impressive!

Developed by intuitive surgical, Da Vinci uses a viewing and control console with 3-D images that allows the human surgeon to get a closer look at the surgical site, and work at a smaller scale than conventional surgery permits. The surgical arm unit is no larger than the diameter of a pencil and has small tools at the end of the robotic arms that can move in the same ways as the human wrist can. The surgical arm unit also has the ability to filter out the doctor’s tiny hand tremors how-ever small they are.

State-of-the-art Da Vinci

Da Vinci has a computer workstation, a video display, and hand controls that are used to move surgical instruments that are mounted on the table. In the future along with other automation, a surgery may require only one surgeon, an anesthesiologist and one or two nurses. Da Vinci even enables a surgeon in America eqquiped with high-speed network connection to do an operating in France, without having to Fly there!

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