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La neurochirurgie, un terrain privilégié pour développer la robotique chirurgicaleLa neurochirurgie, un terrain privilégié pour développer la robotique chirurgicale

Michel LEFRANC

Seance of wednesday 10 may 2023 (Neurochirurgie)

DOI number : 10.26299/7efg-cr83/emem.2023.17.05

Abstract

Robotics is a scientific field dealing with work with machines that perform tasks according to predetermined and adaptive programs and algorithms, automatically or semi-automatically, most often under human supervision.
Surgical robotics can be defined by the application of robotics to surgery and other interventional acts in medicine.
Surgical robotics, since the first robot "arthrorobot" has a history of more than 35 years. From its beginnings, robotics has been interested in the uses of these tools in neurosurgery. In fact, in this discipline where the functional challenges are immense for patients, the intrinsic quality of robots, which is the application of a schedule with precision and reproducibility, opens up prospects for improving the service provided.
After a brief historical review, we will illustrate the use and interest of robotics in cranial stereotaxy and spinal surgery, we will end the presentation by showing that robotics is only at its beginnings, that these tools will become integrative technology platforms, thus becoming the "daily" tool of the surgeon and, in particular, of the neurosurgeon.