Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.v.

Florian Alexander Fröhlich

Sophie Lantermann

Ulrich Hagn

Ulrich Seibold

Michael Strohmayr

Thomas Bahls

Georg Passig

Minimally invasive instrument for robotic surgery including a functional element, a force, torque and/or pressure transmission device for transmitting force, torque and/or pressure from a drive to the functional element, a coupling device for coupling the instrument to a medical robot such that the functional element can be actuated by the drive, wherein an operating element for manually operating the functional element in a state in which the instrument is uncoupled from the medical robot.

Minimally invasive instrument for robotic surgery

The invention relates to a minimally invasive instrument comprising an enlargeable sensor head with a flat sensor element that has resilient properties. In order to enable an improved minimally invasive instrument, the sensor element comprises a film element with a first layer and with a second layer distanced from the first layer by means of spacers, wherein the sensor element comprises, arranged between the layers of the film element, expansion-sensitive, polymer-based resistance elements for picking up tactile stimuli.

Minimally invasive instrument

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Munich, Germany

Florian Alexander Fröhlich