The Intuitive/sup TM/ telesurgery system: overview and application

Gary S. Guthart, J. Kenneth Salisbury

2002 · 916 citations · 6 references

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Abstract

The paper briefly describes daVinci/sup TM/, a surgical telerobot designed to provide enhanced dexterity to doctors performing minimally invasive surgical procedures. The rationale for a full 7-degree-of-freedom master-slave system is presented along with a discussion of the resulting computational architecture and recent clinical applications.

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