QUO VADIS ROBOTICS IN ORTHOPAEDICS?
Dr. José-Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera
Recorded during: The 2020 TechMed Event | more info
Date recording: 28 October 2020
Abstract
Robotics had it first appearance in surgery in the 19080's as a replacement of stereotactic frames in neurosurgery. The first commercially available robotic systems were designed to manipulate surgical microscopes in the same domain. In the 1990s the success story of the Robodoc system led to a first wave of orthopaedic robotics exhibiting autonomous bone preparation which abruptly ceased due to compromoized surgical outcomes at the early turn of the millenium. Image-less systems thrived and a new generation of robotics systems with a surgeon in the loop evolved. Meanwhile sensors and actuators, machine learning and connectivity have entered this domain underpinning and strengthening the value of surgical robotics.