Design of the surgical robots for orthopaedics applications

A robot with only high positioning accuracy is still not adequate for surgery application. An intuitive human machine interface and transferrable operation mode are another two crucial factors for a medical robot in surgery applications. These two factors have to be put into consideration during designing a medical robot at the first place. Base on the viewpoint, a new architecture of a surgical robot for orthopaedics applications has been designed. The new type of robot has also been compared with the past versions of surgical robots developed in the author´s laboratory. Its advantages in clinical application have also been verified by orthopaedics surgeon on cadaver test and the results justified the new design concept.