Single Incision Robotic Kidney Removal

For the first time in Michigan, a diseased kidney has been surgically removed at Henry Ford Hospital using highly sophisticated 3D robotics through a single incision.
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Mechatronics in the OR

Using the da Vinci Surgical System shown here, the surgeon operates while seated at a console viewing a 3D image of the surgical field. His or her fingers grasp the console’s master controls below the display, and the system translates the surgeon’s hand, wrist, and finger movements into precise, real-time movements of surgical instruments by the robot.

A system-level approach moves robotic surgery from science fiction to reality.

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Medicine and Mechatronics

An interesting niche in the mechatronic world is the laboratory automation market. Applications in this arena can be syringe dispensing of tiny volumes of fluids, automatic dispensing and sampling of chemicals, DNA processing and many other applications. For the most part, the applications are Cartesian arrays of samples in small wells and single or multiple dispensing devices on a moving head. The number of samples being managed can be anything from 1 to 96. Read more