Remote microsurgery system for deep and narrow space – development of new surgical procedure and micro-robotic tool

Abstract

We developed a new medical operation procedure and robotic tool of microsurgery in deep and narrow site. It enables us to operate a difficult microsurgery that conventional method can’t be achieved. Our system consists of flexible slave micro manipulators which can enter deep site of human body like a flexible catheter and master manipulators. Owing to difference of their sizes, it enables to convert micro motion of slave into natural size motion of master. Finally, both feasibility and effectiveness of the total system were verified experimentally.