Stuart Campbell, clinical sales development manager of the neurological products division, at Renishaw, discusses key trends in the use of robotics in neurosurgery.
The curious case of Phineas Gage is one of the earliest and most well known cases of serious brain injury. On 13 September 1848, Gage was working as a railway foreman in Vermont when an explosion caused a three foot long iron rod to be propelled straight through his skull. At the time, doctors thought it impossible to survive such an injury and his remarkable survival and reported personality changes affected the study of neuroscience forever. Robotics – a new technology that offers high precision access to a complex and sensitive region – is now changing the face of neuroscience.
Industrial environments are rife with automation and robotic systems. The upwards trend is only increasing, with the International Federation of Robotics predicting that by 2018, 1.3 million industrial robots will be entering service in factories across the globe. Automated or robotic systems can increase the speed, reliability and accuracy of industrial processes, but the benefits of robotics are not limited to industrial applications.
Applications in the operating theatre
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