Robotic surgery at Imperial College London

Abstract

The paper presents an review of the special purpose robot surgery projects currently at Imperial College London, Robotics Centre. These include: extensions to the prostate robot system (first tried clinically in April, 1991 and up to now applied to 5 patients) which have resulted in a new Science Engineering Research Council funding initiative; knee surgery project (funded by a London Hospital) for a robotic device to machine the bones of knees or prosthetic implants; a passive manipulator arm with electromagnetic brakes which is used for kidney biopsy in conjunction with a specially adapted 'C' arm X-ray machine that can give 3D quantitative measurements.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>