‘Snake-Like Robot’ and ‘Steady-Hand system’ to equip operating rooms of the future!

Robots are increasingly coming to equip our future operating rooms. Among all the new high-tech medical tools, Johns Hopkins University researchers have come up with a snakelike robot! This robotic assistant is capable of helping surgeons in making incisions and tie sutures with greater dexterity and precision — operating especially in the narrow region like throat. This is not just all! Scientists have come up with another robot – the steady-hand system – that is capable of curbing a surgeon’s natural tremor. It precisely allows a doctor to inject drugs into tiny blood vessels in the eye, dissolving vision-damaging clots. Johns Hopkins-based, National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center for Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology team have built these and other projects.

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