Voice-Controlled Intelligent Robotic Arm to Assist Surgeon in Performing Surgery

Abstract

A surgeon needs the assistance of a nurse to provide him with the required surgical equipment while conducting surgery. However, in some situations, such as in the case of rural areas or emergencies, there may be a lack of skilled nurses or the nurses may be exhausted due to longer working hours, resulting which there may be possibility of errors at that crucial moment when the accuracy is required the most. Therefore, it may be helpful for the surgeons if a faster and more accurate assistive technology may be introduced, which will be reliable in any situation, and thus would reduce the chances of any mistakes. This work aims at introducing an intelligent robotic arm that tries to meet the requirement of such assistance. The robotic arm introduced here acts according to the voice commands provided by the surgeon. Whenever the arm gets provided with the name of surgical equipment, it will be able to find and hand it over to the doctor, and it will also be able to keep the equipment back in place if commanded so. The proposed solution provides a better way to deal with the problem, as it can work for hours continuously with less chance of errors during surgery. Again, in case of getting handled by nurses, there is also a chance of contamination of the surgical equipment, which our proposed work reduces significantly.