Russia successfully fabricated new surgical robot

Russian journalists in Moscow have successfully fabricated a new-generation surgical robot and plan to put the robot into trial for the first time in 2013.

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The information was provided by Prof. Dr. Dmitry Pushkari, MD, who was working at the Medical University of Moscow (MGMSU) when he delivered his speech at the 30th Session of the Presidium of the Korean Academy. Russian Science (RAN).

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Professor Puscari said the surgical robot was built on the basis of the knowledge and experience gained during the use of the American da Vinci S surgical robot that is equipped for the MGMSU School, as well as with the help of Top engineers are working at the Institute of Information Technology - Design of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKTI RAN).

Currently, while the United States has nearly 2,500 da Vinci robots that have performed more than 100,000 operations in 2011, Russia has just nine robots and MGMSU's da Vinci S in the past three years has performed 400 surgeries. Prostate surgery.

As the United States sells da Vinci robots at very high prices, Russian scientists have turned to researching and inventing new generation robotic robots in the country with the same functionality, but at prices 2-3 times lower and for size much lighter.