Article "Medrobotics’ New Flex System for Snake-Like Surgical Endoscopy Cleared in Europe"
March 20, 2014
Manufacturer - Medrobotics Corporation
Flexible robot a new advance in surgery
Published on Jan 22, 2016
"Flexible robot could make surgery, recovery easier"Surgeons at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center are using a new flexible robot to perform delicate head and neck operations, resulting in quicker recovery time. Dr. Maria Simbra reports.
January 22, 2016
The Flex surgical robot from Medrobotics snakes down a patient's throat
Uploaded on Jul 25, 2016
The Flex is a surgical robotic tool from Medrobotics that the FDA approved for head and neck surgeries in 2015. The surgeon navigates the snake-like robot down the patient's throat to the surgical target, where the Flex stiffens to provide a platform for surgical tools.
In a robotic surgery breakthrough, a bot stitched up a pig’s small intestines using its own vision, tools, and intelligence to carry out the procedure. STAR’s inventors don’t claim that robots can replace humans in the operating room anytime soon. Instead they see the accomplishment as a proof of concept—both for the specific technologies used and for the general concept of “supervised autonomy” in the OR.
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