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The current mainstream of robot-assisted surgery equipment is da Vinci Surgical System (da Vinci Surgical System), which performs about 200,000 cases annually surgery, most commonly hysterectomies and prostate removal. But da Vinci system is far from perfect, it can not be moved, weighing half a ton, the cost of expensive ($ 1.8 million). It uses proprietary software, even if we can afford it, the researchers also difficult to modify the operating system to try new methods. Open source robot Raven will change all that .
Raven was originally UC Santa Cruz researchers developed for the US Army, is a battlefield surgery robot prototype, very compact, lightweight and inexpensive ($ 250,000). But more importantly, it uses open-source software, Linux-based operating system allows anyone to modify and improve the original code. US researchers create the basis of many universities are a variety of new uses of Raven: Raven Harvard researchers try to get surgery on a beating heart, UCLA tried to add new sensors allow the robot to communicate with the surgery.
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