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While robotics has primarily penetrated laparoscopic surgery with the product offering of Intuitive Surgical and to a lesser extent orthopedic, spinal, and brain surgery, plastic surgery has remained largely untouched by robotics to date, partially due to the absence of a dedicated robotic technology. In this chapter, we examine the technology gaps that have contributed to this scenario and describe how the resulting criteria for a robotic platform for reconstructive microsurgery have propelled an end-user-driven development of a robotic platform with wristed robotic microinstruments for open surgery.
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Teichmann, H., Innocenti, M. (2021). Development of a New Robotic Platform for Microsurgery. In: Selber, J.C. (eds) Robotics in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74244-7_11
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