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LONDON, March 14 (Xinhua) -- King's College London Monday announced that a team of roboticists, engineers and surgeons at the college have for the first time operated on a human body using a soft surgical1 robot as part of keyhole surgery.
Under the guidance of expert surgeons, the team used the robot to operate on human cadavers2 as well as medical manikins, according to a press release from King's College London (KCL).
Surgeons today rely on conventional surgical robots based on structures made from rigid3 components4 which only move in straight lines, consequently giving access to a limited number of sites.
Taking inspiration from soft-bodied animals, the team created robotic devices specifically for minimally5 invasive surgery, opening up areas previously6 inaccessible7 to surgeons using current keyhole surgery techniques.
Researchers operate on human body with soft robot for first timeMade from two segments of silicone material, the new surgical robot is equipped with three air chambers8 per segment allowing elongation and bending in all directions, according to KCL. It thus mimics9 an octopus10' ability to move its tentacles11, enabling the robot to squeeze through narrow openings and past delicate organs without damaging them.
The robot allows surgeons to investigate and explore many more of the narrow tunnel-like structures within the body, and it can also be fitted with surgical tools such as grippers or cutters to make it a fully12 functional13 surgical tool, according to KCL.
This new robot "is the answer and we look forward to taking soft robotics beyond surgical robotics into other areas such as repairing underwater pipelines14 or search and rescue operations," said Kaspar Althoefer, a Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems at KCL and the lead researcher of the project.
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1 surgical | |
adj.外科的,外科医生的,手术上的 | |
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(机器、设备等的)构成要素,零件,成分; 成分( component的名词复数 ); [物理化学]组分; [数学]分量; (混合物的)组成部分 | |
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5 minimally | |
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adj.达不到的,难接近的 | |
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n.房间( chamber的名词复数 );(议会的)议院;卧室;会议厅 | |
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9 mimics | |
n.模仿名人言行的娱乐演员,滑稽剧演员( mimic的名词复数 );善于模仿的人或物v.(尤指为了逗乐而)模仿( mimic的第三人称单数 );酷似 | |
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10 octopus | |
n.章鱼 | |
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11 tentacles | |
n.触手( tentacle的名词复数 );触角;触须;触毛 | |
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14 pipelines | |
管道( pipeline的名词复数 ); 输油管道; 在考虑(或规划、准备) 中; 在酿中 | |
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