Google intends to create an ideal platform for robotic surgery Bashny.Net

Google is not a novice in the field of robotics or technology for health. The tech giant owns several robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, and an Arsenal of robotic dogs and nimble two-legged robots. X Life Sciences, one of the units, the company creates everything from contact lenses that measure blood sugar, to special resistant to shake spoon for patients with Parkinson's disease.





Now the search giant is teaming up with Ethicon, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, to create the ultimate platform for robotic surgery. Operations involving robotics is not new, since they are carried out in one form or another since 1985. If you use modern systems for robotic surgery, the doctor looks at the console and sees a high definition image made with the camera of the robot. Using manual operation, the doctor operates the robotic arms of the surgeon.



Robotic surgery is well suited to operations involving small incisions and a high level of accuracy, which is difficult to achieve even the most skillful surgeon. The demonstration video below, many-armed machine under human control sufficiently to deftly draw a small picture. The real application involves removal of cancerous tissue, hysterectomy, and bypass surgery. The cuts made by the machine, leave smaller scars and reduce the bleeding.



Of course, in reality, robotic surgery is faced with certain obstacles. For example, dozens of lawsuits across the U.S. were brought against the Corporation Intuitive Surgical: it was alleged that their surgical system da Vinci has a higher rate of complications, including cases of serious injury and mortality.

Despite the fact that the Federal service for supervision in the sphere of health has ruled in favor of Intuitive Surgical, the company still faces accusations that its business practice allows enough trained doctors to operate the device and that the device itself has a critical problem.

What is Google's role in this process? We are not aware of the details of our partnership with Johnson & Johnson, but some information already available on the Internet.

 

SAFE ROBOTIC SURGERY

Safe existing robotic surgical platforms, such as da Vinci from Intuitive Surgical, have 3D high definition endoscopes. Video stream gives the surgeon a view of the guts. The aim of Google is to use algorithms to analyze these images on the screen and the ability to highlight blood vessels and to display critical information on the screen.

 

In other words, — said the representative of Google, the new system will help surgeons see better during surgery, and to get easier access to information on which they rely during operation.

Such technologies lead to the actions of the image editing tools in the photo app from Google, as well as automated analysis download YouTube, which can recognize pirated content.



Representative Johnson & Johnson argues that ideas of the team can, for example, offer the best locations for incisions based on the medical history of the individual patient — a kind of Google Maps for surgery. Google say they will not participate in the development of the system that actually controls the surgical tools.

Johnson & Johnson is already working with Intuitive Surgical over the components to the da Vinci ® system. But the partnership with Google will be directed to an entirely different hardware and software. The representative said the company hopes that the new system will be more cost-effective for hospitals in developing countries and that its interface will simplify the access of information to surgeons during surgery.

We have yet to see whether the partnership of Google and J&J to implement all his plans. First, you must pass the antitrust test, then a long stage of research. In fact, the product will appear in a year or two.

Google specializiruetsya on creating intuitive and simple interfaces. Their introduction to robotics with surgical forceps and scalpel on the limbs to work with human entrails gives only benefits. published

 

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