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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 09, 2014
Sri International, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Thomas D. Egan, Marblehead, MA (US);
Karen Shakespear Koenig, San Francisco, CA (US);
SRI INTERNATIONAL, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A hyperdexterous surgical system is provided. The system can include one or more surgical arms coupleable to a fixture and configured to support one or more surgical tools. The system can include an electronic control system configured to communicate electronically with the one or more robotic surgical tools. The control system can electronically control the operation of the one or more surgical tools. The system can include one or more portable handheld controllers actuatable by a surgeon to communicate one or more control signals to the one or more surgical tools via the electronic control system to operate the one or more surgical tools. The one or more portable handheld controllers can provide said one or more control signals from a plurality of locations of an operating arena, allowing a surgeon to be mobile during a surgical procedure and to remotely operate the one or more surgical tools from different locations of the operating arena.