Techniques involve insertion of instruments and viewing equipment into the body through natural orifice or punctures created by the surgeon.
Main advantage: rapid patient
recovery, but disadvantage associated
with sensory input to surgeon
only available through a single video image
Project Goal: Develop improved tools for
endoscopic manipulation, sensing, and human interfaces
for a teleoperative surgical workstation.
Shankar Sastry (sastry@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu) / June 1995.