New robotic system could let surgeons operate on a beating heart
It may not have been put into practice just yet, but it looks like a new robotic-assisted system could one day let surgeons use a surgical robot (like Da Vinci system pictured at left) to operate on a beating human heart. That impressive development comes courtesy of a group of researchers at France’s Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics, and centers on a new 3D modeling system that can track the motion of the heart’s surface as it beats. It can even apparently adjust for things like movement of the patient’s chest wall during breathing, and predict the movements in a single step (unlike previous attempts that resulted in a delay).
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New robotic system could let surgeons operate on a beating heart
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