Talk:Sofie (surgical robot)

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Did you know... that Sofie is the first surgical robot to return tactile information back to the operating surgeon?

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Parts of the Article may not be fully correct[edit]

Dear authors,
I am afraid that this article is not written correctly, or at least confusing.
In the first paragraph it is written that "...and is the first surgical robot to incorporate force feedback". The MiroSurge System of DLR (German Aerospace Center) presented its first three arm system on the fair trade AUTOMATICA in 2008 and published it in several journals and conferences. It has torque sensors in each joint of the robot and a full 7 dof force/torque sensor in the instruments. The measured forces and torques of the instruments are fed back to the haptic interface of the surgeon. So it depends on whether the citated sentence above really means force feedback in the "robot" and that forces, measured by the "robot" are fed back to the surgeon or if it should mean that the "robotic system" incorporates force feedback. If it is the later then it is not the first system to have this.
Here there are some articles and homepages to verify this information:
Homepage: MiroSurge Homepage
One of the Articles downloadable at: Hagn2008
You can find more if you click on "selected publications" on the homepage.

So my question is: What should we do about it?

Sincerely, Platypus Kiwi (talk) 08:16, 20 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]