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A Robomedic for the Battlefield...A snakelike robotic arm may one day medically attend to soldiers as they are carried off the battlefield.
A message from Clymer.."CC"..Conrad Clyburn to all members of Surgical & Medical Robotics on MedTechIQ!
Colleagues,
As reported in MIT Tech Review...An article on a TATRC project being conducted at Carnegie Mellon University...researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are developing technology to give battlefield medics a helping hand--literally. Howie Choset, an associate professor of robotics at CMU, has engineered a snakelike robotic arm equipped with various sensors that can monitor a soldier's condition. The robot can be wirelessly controlled via a joystick, so that a doctor at a remote clinic may move the robot to any point on a soldier's body to assess his injuries as he's being carried to a safe location. The robot's serpentine flexibility allows it to maneuver within tight confines, so that, in case a casualty can't be extracted from the battlefield immediately, the robot can perform an initial medical assessment in the field.
Currently, the team is collaborating with the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) to integrate the robotic arm within the military's high-tech stretcher, called the Life Support for Trauma and Transport system (LSTAT)...
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22045/?nlid=1740
ENJOY!
CC
Visit Surgical & Medical Robotics at:
https://medtechiq.ning.com/groups/group/show?id=2140535%3AGroup%3A75
Colleagues,
As reported in MIT Tech Review...An article on a TATRC project being conducted at Carnegie Mellon University...researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are developing technology to give battlefield medics a helping hand--literally. Howie Choset, an associate professor of robotics at CMU, has engineered a snakelike robotic arm equipped with various sensors that can monitor a soldier's condition. The robot can be wirelessly controlled via a joystick, so that a doctor at a remote clinic may move the robot to any point on a soldier's body to assess his injuries as he's being carried to a safe location. The robot's serpentine flexibility allows it to maneuver within tight confines, so that, in case a casualty can't be extracted from the battlefield immediately, the robot can perform an initial medical assessment in the field.
Currently, the team is collaborating with the U.S. Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) to integrate the robotic arm within the military's high-tech stretcher, called the Life Support for Trauma and Transport system (LSTAT)...
Read on at: http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22045/?nlid=1740
ENJOY!
CC
Visit Surgical & Medical Robotics at:
https://medtechiq.ning.com/groups/group/show?id=2140535%3AGroup%3A75
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