-The Da Vinci Surgical System-
What is the Da Vinci Surgical System?
The Da Vinci Surgical System is a large purpose-built robot controlled by a surgeon that performs minimally invasive surgical procedures on patients. The system incorporates an ergonomically designed surgeon's console, a patient-side module with four interactive robotic arms, each with interchangeable surgical instruments and a 3-dimensional endoscopic vision system. Powered by high-tech supercomputers, the surgeon's hand movements are scaled, filtered and then converted into precise movements of the surgical attachments. The designers of the system are a team of doctors, engineers and biomedical engineers at a company called Intuitive Surgical.
The motivation that these designers had was to develop a surgical technique that would be minimally traumatic for patients and one that would speed up recovery time.
Figure 1: The Da Vinci Surgical System showing the surgeon's console and the patient-side module.......
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