The base didn’t turn out as expected since acrylic is expensive and I didn’t want to waste any scrap. The 4-axis frame sans gripper looked like this rendered in SolidWorks: I’ve had the CAD files done for a while, but I had no time to actually fabricate this thing until now during winter break. And with some improvements in machine vision, maybe even fully robotic automated surgical procedures in the future. But given the high speeds of information propagation these days, why isn’t telesurgery more popular? Surgeons should be able to operate in places too inaccessible or distant from their current location with near full effectiveness (with a nursing staff to match of course). Of course this is limited by the heavy and secured datapath that must be maintained over the course of the surgery to effectively carry out the surgery. The Da Vinci robotic system is operated by a surgeon only ten or twenty feet away connected by wire. At best it has only been a slight telepresence of a surgeon supervising operators in a faraway room. We have yet to see surgeons operating with near telepathic efficiency on patients thousands of miles away. For the multi-million dollar price tag, robotic surgery doesn’t currently do what it was cut out to do. I worked at the urological department of UCI Medical Center as an intern for robotic surgery, and it gave me some ideas on how to improve robotic surgery and how to improve its cost effectiveness.
Robotic Arm: Introduction and Mechanical Design
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