Da Vinci surgical robot makes a tiny paper airplane

A nice demonstration.
I'm amazed at the apparent fluidity of movement of the robotic tweezers. It makes the robots use look almost easy.

this was the robot that was on House the tv show undoing a blouse.

It's still too expensive. The U.S. should get together, and catch up with the world in the use of newly developed endoscopic procedures. Instead of promoting this technology. It's still cool though. No doubts about that.

It's still too expensive. The U.S. should get together, and catch up with the world in the use of newly developed endoscopic procedures. Instead of promoting this technology. It's still cool though. No doubts about that.

It's still too expensive. The U.S. should get together, and catch up with the world in the use of newly developed endoscopic procedures.

While I usually agree on bashing the US over their dropping scientific significance in this case it is not merited.

The daVinci System is basically the ONLY robot in the operating room (worldwide) that has not failed spectacularly in an economic sense (most other companies went bust).

There have been numerous other tries, but the advantages of better operation outcome and less operating time ( = more opertations per operating room = more profit) have not come true. Mostly because these robots are hard to prep and hard to sterilize. These two issues alone bind personell and the operating room beyond of what a normal operation would require.

The operation results are also pretty much on a par as to the pre-robot era. So hospitals are still loathe to cough up the 5 million or so a robot costs.

myefox2012: What ? :D

antialias_physorg: This really is not about bashing the US. Because I never do. I mean it. The efficiency of the endoscopy is the next step. I guess the Da Vinci is the next one after that. But right now, it is too much. It's not about the anything else than money. As usual in the end.

I wonder if I could pick my nose with this.

I'm not sure of the advantage, aside from filtering out shaking. I just made a paper airplane the same size, with finer control of the folds in 2/3 of the time, on my first try, using nothing but my fingers.