Drill the first surgeon robot Spanish
Video from the Robot
A
team of engineers and surgeons Cordoba and Malaga have designed the
prototype of the first Spanish surgical robot, which allow to operate
more accurate and less expensive way of general interventions,
digestive, thoracic, cardiovascular, gynecological, pediatric and
urologic surgery. The
project was presented this week at the Maimonides Institute for
Biomedical Research Córdoba (IMIBIC) as part of a national day of
Robotic Surgical, and has been given the acronym BIT, although in the
future, when it is placed, will be called Córdoba. The
head of the Urology Department of the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba
and project coordinator José María Requena, explained that this robot
will help any surgery, and replaced like the only solution available in
the market, the 'Da Vinci', which is "Very expensive and difficult access of many professionals to this technology." The
BIT is designed under the guidance of surgeons Reina Sofía, while the
technical development of the robot has been awarded to applied research
center Tecnalia, together with the group of Medical Robotics at the
University of Málaga and engineers from the University of Córdoba.
It
has been developed with features that allow using conventional
laparoscopic surgery consumables that already exists in the market,
which saves costs in the use and maintenance of the robot. Also,
their size makes it not necessary to adjust the operating room, and can
be used in any of these areas in which laparoscopic surgery is used. Specifically,
the BIT is a slave robot (which handles the surgeon) consisting of
three arms that can operate in a coordinated or individual, and that
allows the physician to operate sitting in front of a screen with
three-dimensional vision, which your vision will be similar to that of conventional interventions. The
controls, meanwhile, emulate laparoscopic instrumentation, and include
tactile sensations to increase sensory perception to operate. This
prototype has yet to be tested in an animal development with all
necessary security measures, as specified Requena, adding that Córdoba
is summed with BROCA to a field with a future and a "very important
project" with "thousands of possibilities development. " However, Requena said that, for marketing, 3 or 4 years will be needed. In
this regard, one of the project coordinators, Rafael Medina, he added
that the second objective "is to generate industrial base in the
province." "If
it got put on the market, where market and where maintenance will be in
Córdoba", Medina, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence, University of Córdoba said. In
fact, in the development of this prototype has been invested 3.2
million euros from 80% of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and
20% of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MINECO), and has generated 21 direct jobs.
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