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Tag Archives: haptics
Haptics in the news
“It always helps to be able to feel what you are doing, to feel the tissue tension and to feel the force when manipulating a suture,” says Domenico Savatta, chief of minimally invasive and robotic urology surgery at Newark Beth … Continue reading
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Haptics- A robotic limitation
The most cited drawback of robotic surgery is the loss of fine feeling of the instruments on tissue. The other drawbacks are the expense of the surgical system and the need for precise positioning of the robotic arms to provide … Continue reading