Scoliobot aims to improve spinal surgery accuracy
A robot being developed at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) uses two Universal Robots UR5 cobot arms to drill holes in vertebrae and correct spinal deformities. Dubbed the “Scoliobot,” the team hopes the robot will soon perform spinal surgery with greater accuracy than today’s procedures. Here’s how a procedure using Scoliobot would work. First, a patient…
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