Just got to control a $1.5 million dollor robot

[WingZero94]

So my work had an open house on their new da Vinci S HD robot. The controls are ultra smooth and easy to use. You can take those ultra small rubber bands (2 - 3 mm), open them up and place them on objects.

Here is the site for the robot:

http://www.intuitivesurgical.c...gicalsystem/index.aspx

Kinda fun.... maybe i'll go into surgery!

 

[burntfish]

 

[WingZero94]

Originally posted by: burntfish

LOL - Did I mention that the camera is HD AND 3D? So when you look in the goggles, you have complete depth perception. I think I know what I want for Christmas now!!!



Edited for idito spelling.....

 

[BurnItDwn]

Ooooh ... cool toy!

 

[Rubycon]

Can you use it to refuel the big bus? :laugh:

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: WingZero94
So when you look in the googles, you have complete depth perception.

i know they have some good technology over there, but i don't think they're that far advanced.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

i know they have some good technology over there, but i don't think they're that far advanced.

Good catch.

First it was lose. Now it's the goggle. They truly do nothing at all. Might as well buy a $6k Dell labtop to keep the java warm.

 

[Squisher]

That's the machine the aliens used to probe my brain!

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Squisher
That's the machine the aliens used to probe my brain!

That wasn't your brain they were probing.

 

[WingZero94]

Apparently the surgeons LOVE these robots. They currently use them for Prostate Cancer and Hysterectomy's.... so I doubt they were probing your brain...

You can put different instruments (not tools) on the robot arms like miniature cutters, etc.

 

[Old Hippie]

Originally posted by: WingZero94
So my work had an open house on their new da Vinci S HD robot. The controls are ultra smooth and easy to use. You can take those ultra small rubber bands (2 - 3 mm), open them up and place them on objects.

Here is the site for the robot:

http://www.intuitivesurgical.c...gicalsystem/index.aspx

Kinda fun.... maybe i'll go into surgery!

That's quite a machine! How much does it cost?

NM.

A. The average base cost of a System is $1.5 million.

 

[Dualist]

Very amazing, and it costs a big fortune!

 

[Modelworks]

I hope it wasn't set to remotely control another robot at another location.
That would be bad !

Surgeons go crazy as robot went crazy during operation !
"It was just grabbing things on the patient and stretching them !, it was awful !"

 

[rezinn]

We have one of these that I've seen used for "minimally invasive" valve replacement and septal defect surgeries. You don't have to split the sternum but you still have to cut a hole for each arm, cannula, and camera.

 

[skyking]

My friend had prostate cancer surgery recently, and they used one of those systems. The cancer was all over, and they saved the nerve bundles so he could live a normal life afterwords. It would have been impossible to save the nerves using conventional methods.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Johnny 5 is alive!

 

[WingZero94]

Originally posted by: skyking
My friend had prostate cancer surgery recently, and they used one of those systems. The cancer was all over, and they saved the nerve bundles so he could live a normal life afterwords. It would have been impossible to save the nerves using conventional methods.

They say that the recovery time is significantly less with this robot too. Instead of splitting your whole bowel open, they put a couple holes in.

 

[LordMorpheus]

Originally posted by: WingZero94
Apparently the surgeons LOVE these robots. They currently use them for Prostate Cancer and Hysterectomy's.... so I doubt they were probing your brain...

You can put different instruments (not tools) on the robot arms like miniature cutters, etc.

I've attending a lecture from a chief of surgery at a Houston Medical Center hospital about the use of surgical robots.

They have forced surgeons to develope new techniques - these robots don't have haptic feedback (force feedback).

Surgeons of course rely pretty heavily on their sense of touch when operating. The daVinci gives them an amazing sense of sight (the guy said it was like standing on a heart the size of a house) but remove the tactile feedback. Surgeons had to work out new procedures that didn't rely on this as heavily.

The problem is that in any haptic system there is the potential for instability (a force is applied to the controller by the operator, the affector applies this force to the subject. however, the affector also applies a force to the controller. Because the affector can move the controller, which, in turn, moves the affector there is the potential for things to get completely nuts). In a surgical robot there is absolutely no tolerance for instability - what happens when the robotic arm goes crazy while it's holding a scalpel inside of some dude's chest cavity?

Still, cool tech.

 

[DangerAardvark]

Nice. You could do a vasectomy on yourself.