SEE PICS! Meet HeroSurg, the world’s first robotic surgeon with a sense of touch

In a world where robots play an important role when it comes to the health sector, giving a sense of touch to a machine is what a team of researchers hope will pave way for a major breakthrough in the robotic surgery. HeroSurg, the world’s first robotic surgeon with a sense of touch The HeroSurg robot, developed by engineers from Deakin University in Australia and Harvard University in the US, along with Suren Krishnan from the Royal Adelaide Hospital and an Honorary Professor at Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovation, is a major breakthrough to current technology, which now limits robotic surgery to the sense of sight. Krishnan said HeroSurg's addition of the sense of touch, provided through technology known as haptic feedback, would lead to better patient outcomes. HeroSurg, the world’s first robotic surgeon with a sense of touch "HeroSurg's unique features which allow it to overcome many of the limitations of existing robotic laparoscopic systems, include collision avoidance capability, modularity and automatic patient/bed adjustment," Dalvand said. "HeroSurg will assist surgeons to perform demanding surgical procedures with comfort, accuracy and safety by providing real-time collision avoidance for medical instruments, and stereo-endoscopic vision," Dalvand said.