Surgical robot for cochlear implantation, Bern, Switzerland

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Inselspital, Bern University Hospital

ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern

"„Instrument Flight” to the Inner Ear"

 

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Robotic Cochlea Implantation, Inselspital and ARTORG Center

Published on Mar 15, 2017

A team of surgeons and engineers of Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, have developed a high-precision surgical robot for cochlear implantation. On 15 March 2017 they report on their first successful Robotic Cochlear Implantation (RCI) in Science Robotics.