Surgical Robots BY TAELA GALLEGOS BEN PADO What

Surgical Robots BY: TAELA GALLEGOS BEN PADO

What is a Surgical Robot? �A surgical robot is used to help perform surgeries in a hospital. �The robot is used by the doctor who looks into a screen, where the robot will copy the exact movements. �Surgical robots make things easier where after a surgery a patient can go home in 2 -3 days. �These robots help make surgery less so scars don’t show up as easily.

Where They are Used and Work Envelope �Surgical robots are located in hospitals. �A surgical robots work envelope is 7 degrees of freedom.

Is it multi-functional? �No, the robot will only copy what the doctor will do when performing a surgery.

How does it perform. �When looking into the screen the robot copies the doctors movement. �Using a surgical robot makes operations easier so the patient isn’t in much pain afterwards. �Scars for the surgery are barely notice-able.

Advantages and Disadvantages �Some advantages of surgical robots is that there is minimal scarring. Also that the recovery time from the surgery is less than if you had a conventional surgery. �A disadvantage of surgical robots is that the robots are large and sometimes take up most of the operation room. Also the surgery's used with surgical robots cost much more than conventional surgery's do.

Jobs/Careers �Some jobs that surgical robots can provide are sales people selling the robots to hospitals. �People can find a career in helping to maintain the robots just incase they aren’t working properly. �Lawyers need to represent the robot so if a patient dies during surgery, it is not the robots fault, it is the operators because the robot is just copying what the operator is doing.

Tasks in the Future �More surgeries can be coded into the robot so it can perform more. �The robot could be able to perform surgeries that would get rid of cancer and perform a heart transplant.

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