Auris Health, Inc.

Auris Surgical Robotics, Inc.

Joseph A Urban, Jr

David Paul Noonan

Jason Joseph Hsu

Binh T Nguyen

Joshua F DeFonzo

Varun Agrawal

Rachel Leigh Chok

Ka Chun Wong

Rishi Nikhil Purohit

Vivian Thalia Nguyen

Joshua F Defonzo

Techniques discussed herein relate to controlling robotic components to move medical instruments and tools configured to be advanced through the medical instruments. For example, a system can include a medical instrument with a working channel, a first robotic component configured to control movement of the medical instrument, and a second robotic component configured to control movement of a tool through the working channel. The first robotic component or the second robotic component can be configured to maintain a position of the tool while the medical instrument moves.

Tool positioning for medical instruments with working channels

Methods and systems for administering directed fluidics during a medical procedure for removing an object are disclosed. A method includes inserting first and second medical instruments into a treatment site, providing irrigation and aspiration of the treatment site through the first and second medical instruments, determining a characteristic of one of the irrigation and the aspiration, and selecting a characteristic of the other of the irrigation and aspiration based on the determined characteristic.

Directed fluidics

A method for capturing an object in a cavity in a patient is described. The method includes advancing a ureteroscope into the cavity containing the object. A basket is advanced through a working channel of the ureteroscope. The basket is opened within the cavity and is positioned so as to enclose the object. Then, two actions are performed simultaneously. The basket is collapsed while simultaneously the basket tool is advanced forward so that the object remains within the basket, ideally near the center of the basket, as the basket closes around the object. Once the object is captured, the basket is retracted to remove the object out of the cavity. Further, this process may be automated by having the method carried out by robotic arms acting in tandem, with one or more robotic arms advancing the basket tool or ureteroscope, and another robotic arm collapsing the basket.

Object capture with a basket

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Joseph A Urban, Jr