The Pax and the Firefly are both fantastic vaporizers, but they suffer from the same shortfall: neither can handle anything other than loose-leaf material. Try to vape a concentrate or essential oil and you’ll be spending the rest of your evening de-gooifying your equipment. Not so with Da Vinci’s latest portable offering.
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“Anything you can do, I can do cheaper,” says the Tokyo Institute of Technology while jabbing a rude elbow in the ribs of Intuitive Surgical. The Japanese institute is showing off IBIS, a surgical robot that is expected to cost between a third and a tenth of the $2 million it takes to buy one of Intuitive’s da Vinci droids. Unlike its electrically powered American rival, IBIS is pneumatic, making it significantly cheaper and able to provide force feedback to surgeons when the arms touch something. The engineers behind the ‘bot are hoping to produce a practical version within the next five years, and we’re already thinking about inviting both machines along for a fight at Expand 2020. In the meantime, you can catch IBIS in action in the video after the break.
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Source: Diginfo
This is a robot system for keyhole surgery, consisting of a master unit operated by the surgeon, and a slave unit that moves on the patient side.
“A feature of the slave robot is, it’s powered entirely by air. Nearly all conventional robots are electrically powered, but by driving this robot pneumatically, we’ve made it possible to gently absorb the force when the robot touches something. The force on the tip of the robot is estimated from the air pressure data, and that information is sent to the surgeon’s master robot. So, it can be fed back to the surgeon’s hand. Alternatively, a large force can be produced by a very lightweight, compact unit. An advantage of this system is, the robot overall can be made extremely compact.”
“Here, the user is operating the master robot. This demonstration enables you to experience, for example, how you can feel the reaction force when you pull the rubber band.”
“Of course, you can eliminate shaking of the hand, change the motion ratio, and change the force feedback factor. So, depending on the medical staff and the situation, the parameters can be varied, to make the system easier to use on the spot.”
“Currently, we aim to build this system for one-third to one-tenth the cost of the da Vinci surgical system. So, we think we can make it better in terms of cost as well.”
“Right now, we’re working with surgeons, who are actually using this system and giving us feedback on how to improve it. We’re receiving support from MEXT, and we aim to achieve a practical version within 4 to 5 years.”
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The closest thing we have come to a robot surgeon associated with the name “Da Vinci” was covered nearly four years back, but this time around, there s another surgical robotic system known as DaVinci which will be able to perform gallbladder surgery on a patient, and best of all is, it will leave virtually no scarring at all, and even better news, minimal pain. According to a general surgeon, Dr. Khurram Kahn, “The DaVinci System is basically controlling the instruments and the surgeon is sitting on a console away from the patient and controlling the robot.”
DaVinci might have been around for a number years, and the one we are referring to today is an improved version thanks to the recent advancements made in the field of robotic surgery. Apart from boasting more precise control over the instruments, the user will also have a stable platform to work with alongside 3D vision. In fact, it takes a single incision to get to the gallbladder, cutting down what used to be up to 8” long to a matter of 2cm, is worth a mention.
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It’s time for another unveil of the speaker lineup we’ve got brewing for Expand in San Francisco this March 16-17. We’ve got four more inspiring thinkers and doers who will be joining us on stage at Fort Mason Center:
They’re joining a whole host of other rad speakers including Chris Anderson (CEO, 3D Robotics and former editor-in-chief, Wired), Yancey Strickler (Co-founder and Head of Community, Kickstarter), Steve Cousins (CEO, Willow Garage), Julie Uhrman (Founder and CEO, OUYA) and many more. Stay tuned here and on our social channels (Twitter, Facebook and Google+) for more agenda reveals and other Expand news.
Plus, find out who the attendees are most looking forward to seeing…
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