Tag: haptics

  • Haptics in the news

    “It always helps to be able to feel what you are doing, to feel the tissue tension and to feel the force when manipulating a suture,” says Domenico Savatta, chief of minimally invasive and robotic urology surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. “Haptics would make it easier to learn robotic surgery, operate on things…

  • Haptics- A robotic limitation

    The most cited drawback of robotic surgery is the loss of fine feeling of the instruments on tissue. The other drawbacks are the expense of the surgical system and the need for precise positioning of the robotic arms to provide for a full range of motion without repositioning the arms.