Release date: 2015-08-11
Flex ® robot system. Designed based on Howie Choset at Carnegie Mellon University. This robot that enters the body through the mouth allows the surgeon to see and reach the anatomical area that is very difficult to reach.
Medrobotics Corp., a company from Carnegie Mellon University, issued a statement in late July 2015 stating that its Flex ® robotic system has been released by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is available for sale on the market. The design of the robot is based on research by Professor Howie Choset of the University's Robotics Institute.
The robot's endoscope system allows surgeons to see and reach anatomical areas that are difficult to reach, and allows minimally invasive surgery (this surgical treatment allows patients to stay in the hospital and their recovery time is greatly reduced) More patients benefit. The Medrobotics robot was initially positioned for minimally invasive surgery of the head and neck from the mouth.
The release of the FDA will undoubtedly add to Carnegie Mellon's business culture. Since 2009, the number of companies founded by professors, students and alumni of the university has reached 138. Professor Choset, the father of the Medrobotics robot, was employed by the company as a chief technology officer and shareholder.
“Pittsburgh is the best place to be born of this technology. Here are our Carnegie Mellon robotics experts, medical experts at the University of Pittsburgh, and the economic environment that supports business.†Choset said, “Especially, we got from Pittsburgh. The support and advice of Jim Jordan of the Life Sciences Greenhouse (Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse) is essential for the commercialization of this system."
Choset and the post-doctoral Alon Wolf, and Marco Zenati of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, invented the robot. Now Wolf is a professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, and Zenati is now at Harvard Medical School. The three founded Medrobotics in 2005.
Today, the company is located in Raynham, Massachusetts. It received the European CE mark in March 2014. This allows the Flex ® robotic system to conduct commercial testing in Europe.
"Flex ® robotic system is the first and only robotic-assisted surgery platform, it has an FDA-approved flexible endoscope (flexible scope), can be used for surgery performed through the mouth (transoral procedures)." Medrobotics of CEO Samuel Straface commented, “its minimally invasive system makes the anatomical areas that are very difficult to access visible and makes surgery on these areas possible. Doctors can use this robot to perform previously because there is no way to see the surgical area, Or a surgery that is difficult to operate."
For the part of the device that performed the surgery, Choset and the research team designed a probe that could bend but not deform. It combines the advantages of a laparoscope (a stiff, straight detector used for minimally invasive surgery) and an endoscope (a bendable but deformable detector).
The surgeon can use a joystick to direct the probe around the organ and other obstacles. It uses the technique of "imitation leadership", and when the probe passes through the body, the rear linkages are adjusted accordingly to fit the anatomy of the body.
The camera's head uses a high resolution camera. The ports on both sides of the camera can be connected to tools that cut and grasp the tissue. Although initially designed for cardiac surgery services, Medrobotics has positioned its market for head and neck surgery through the mouth.
Source: Global Science
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