{"id":3999,"date":"2015-07-27T10:49:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T15:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/?p=3999"},"modified":"2017-06-27T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T20:37:07","slug":"tiny-mechanical-wrist-gives-new-dexterity-to-needlescopic-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/tiny-mechanical-wrist-gives-new-dexterity-to-needlescopic-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny mechanical wrist gives new dexterity to needlescopic surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at 国产传媒\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/research.vuse.vanderbilt.edu\/MEDLab\/\">Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory<\/a> hope to give needlescopic surgery a whole new degree of dexterity.<\/p>\n<p>Needlescopic surgery, which uses surgical instruments shrunk to the diameter of a sewing needle, is the ultimate form of minimally invasive surgery. The needle-sized incisions it requires are so small that they can be sealed with surgical tape and usually heal without leaving a scar.<\/p>\n<p>Research team headed by Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering <a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.vanderbilt.edu\/bio\/robert-webster\">Robert Webster<\/a> has developed a surgical robot with steerable needles equipped with wrists that are less than 1\/16th of an inch (2 mm) thick. The achievement is described in a paper titled <a href=\"http:\/\/research.vuse.vanderbilt.edu\/MEDlab\/sites\/default\/files\/YorkWristICRA15.pdf\">\u201cA wrist for needle-sized surgical robots<\/a>\u201d presented in May at the<a href=\"http:\/\/icra2015.org\/\"> International Conference on Robotics and Automation <\/a>in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.vanderbilt.edu\/2015\/07\/mechanical-wrist-dexterity-needlescopic\/?utm_source=vuhomepage&amp;utm_medium=newsbox&amp;utm_campaign=mechanical-wrist\">Tiny mechanical wrist gives new dexterity to needlescopic surgery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the flick of a tiny mechanical wrist, a team of engineers and doctors at 国产传媒\u2019s Medical Engineering and Discovery Laboratory hope to give needlescopic surgery a whole new degree of dexterity. Needlescopic surgery, which uses surgical instruments shrunk to the diameter of a sewing needle, is the ultimate form of minimally invasive surgery&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[231],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-URL\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/193\/2019\/03\/19171013\/mechanical-wrist.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p98pzF-12v","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4001,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3999\/revisions\/4001"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/vise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}