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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 30, 2014
Kuka Deutschland Gmbh, Augsburg, DE;
Sebastian Lohmeier, Munich, DE;
Cuong Nguyen-Xuan, Waldkirch, DE;
Thomas Neff, Munich, DE;
Wolfgang Schober, Pottmes, DE;
KUKA Deutschland GmbH, Augsburg, DE;
Abstract
One aspect of the robotic surgery system according to the invention relates to a robot assembly comprising at least one robot and an instrument assembly comprising at least one instrument that is guided by said robot assembly. Said instrument assembly comprises at least one instrument housing having at least one drive unit housing part containing a cavity designed to hold the drive unit, said drive unit housing part having a seal for the sterile sealing of an insertion opening of the cavity in addition to a dynamic sterile barrier which delimits the cavity in a sterile manner and across which the drive train arrangement can be actuated; and/or the drive unit is offset laterally in relation to a longitudinal axis of the instrument shaft towards a connection between the instrument housing and the robot assembly.