The surgery robot called Avicenna is a powerful rival to US-made remote surgery robots. Farzam Farahmand, the Director of surgery robot project told the press that the robot used a surgery console behind itself and a pair of robotic arms controlled and continued the surgery.
“Along with the robot, the human surgeon could see the robot in a screen and monitor its movements and actions through a pedal apparatus,” he added.
“Forces applied by the robot to surgery equipments are measurable by tiny robots, which secure the highest precision and quality of surgery; using robot Avicenna minimizes damage to surrounding healthy tissues and thus rendering a more comfortable situation during surgery,” Farahmand told the press.
“Surgery using this robot significantly reduces the bleeding and the recovery time; so far, two test-surgeries have been carried out on two ewes, and the robot awaits necessary permits from health authorities to enter human test-surgery operations,” he said.
“Providing the robot surgeon would be possible after testing on human patients; ‘Sina’ would be of great help in abdominal surgeries especially in prostate disease as the prevalent mode of the use of the robot,” Farahmand noted. “Iran is the second only next to the US in making surgeon robots,”
‘Sina’ has been developed by close cooperation with Sharif University of Technology and Tehran University of Medical Sciences.
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