This Two-Handed Robot Goes Deep into the Brain

Boston Children’s Hospital Answers article on the creation of a prototype two-armed, joystick-controlled neurosurgical robot. This was engineered by Pierre Dupont, chief of Pediatric Cardiac Bioengineering at Boston Children’s, in consultation with neurosurgeon Scellig Stone, and others. The robot was able to perform a series of two-handed neurosurgical tasks involved in tumor resection and tumor debulking in lab-created models.

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