Automated Robotic Assistant for Surgeons

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Automated Robotic Assistant for Surgeons
Small Business Innovation Research
Computer Motion, Inc.
Goleta, CA

• ACCOMPLISHMENTS
• ?Designed and implemented high performance
  multiprocessor control system
• ? Precise force control demonstrated in 8
  Degree-of Freedom Robot
• COMMERCIALIZATION
• ? Automated robotic manipulator that assists
  surgeons in laparoscopic surgery
• ? Nearly one million such endoscopic procedures
  are performed each year
• ? Over 300 units sold since introduction
  providing sales revenue over 6 million
• ? Raised nearly 42 million in IPO

INNOVATION
Combined a 3 degree of freedom micro robot with 5
degree of freedom macro robot to achieve precise
force control
Robotically Assisted Surgery

• GOVERNMENT/ SCIENCE APPLICATIONS
• ? Servicing satellites in space set for Flight
  Telerobotics Servicing Program
• ? Operating and servicing experiments in space
• ? Assembly and maintenance of space structures
• ? Medical treatment in space

1989 1993 Phase II NAS7-1149
NAS7-1367 Success Story 005
Jet Propulsion Laboratory