Robot Surgeons

In robotic surgery, doctors control the movement of a mechanical arm through joysticks, knobs and other peripherals. A new exoskeleton system however, turns a doctor's hands into the controls and provides haptic feedback to simulate actually touching a patient's innards.

​​A new system called HeroSurg, developed by researchers at Deakin and Harvard Universities, is set to increase what surgeons can achieve via robotic surgery, using a haptic feedback system to provide a sense of touch.

A robot guided by 3-D ultrasound and artificial intelligence has demonstrated it can locate lesions in simulated breast and prostate tissue and take biopsies without human assistance.

Robotic technology that predicts the movement of the heart as it beats enables surgical tools to move in concert with each beat, which will allow surgeons to operate on a beating heart as if it were stationary.

Duke University has developed a robot that can detect and remove tiny pieces of metal from human bodies autonomously.