Main advantage: rapid patient
recovery, but disadvantage associated
with reduced dexterity and workspace and
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. Details of the positioning and surgical robots.
Shankar Sastry (sastry@robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu) / September 1995.