High-precision Eye Surgery Robot

Thijs Meenink from the Netherland’s Eindhoven University of Technology has developed a smart eye-surgery robot that enables ophthalmologists to operate with a higher precision on the eye’s retina and vitreous humor. The eye surgeon operates this robot using two joysticks with a haptic feedback, allowing the surgeon to feel any of the resistance put up by the patients’ tissues. The robot also has two robot arms that will copy every movements of the surgeon’s hands and carry out the actual operation. [Gizmag]