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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2018
Cmr Surgical Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Ben Brierton, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Murray Scholan, Newmarket, GB;
Simon Schofield, Cambridge, GB;
Ricardo Michael Henderson Da Silva, Cambridge, GB;
CMR Surgical Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
A surgical robot comprising a robot arm base connected to a distal robot arm link via a series of intermediate articulated robot arm links. A robot arm interface is attached to the distal robot arm link. The robot arm interface engages an instrument interface of a surgical instrument, and comprises an instrument engagement source and an instrument engagement detector. The instrument engagement detector is configured to only detect the instrument engagement source when the instrument engagement source is coupled to the instrument engagement detector by a coupler.