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Japan Caretaker Robot Kneels to Lift People off Floor

The "RIBA-II," developed at a research center in Nagoya, was designed for use in nursing homes and assisted care facilities, which are rapidly expanding as the number of elderly increase in the country.

The wheeled robot has a smallish, bear-like head, which sits atop a thick torso with long, powerful arms. Video of the machine in action shows it bending over to nearly horizontal to pick up a mock patient from a futon mattress spread on the floor -- a common sleeping arrangement in Japan.

"We visited care facilities and found that moving people around was the most tiring thing for workers," said Yu Kato, a robot specialist at Tokai Rubber Industries.

Care workers in Japan lift patients an average of 40 times a day, according to RIKEN, a Japanese government-run research body that worked on the robot with Tokai Rubber.

Kato said the group plans to put the robot in facilities for testing next year, and begin sales from 2015. The current target price is around ¥6 million ($78,000).

The machine can lift up to 80 kilograms (176 pounds) from ground level, wheelchairs and beds. It has sheets of a specially designed rubber sensor mesh along its arms and chest to provide feedback while carrying patients.

It is the second of the RIBA line, short for "Robot for Interactive Body Assistance." The first model, announced in 2009, could move people up to 60 kilograms between a bed and a wheelchair. Built before the rubber mesh was invented, it had about 400 individual sensors to control its lifting, Kato said.

As robots gradually make their way into everyday society in Japan, care for the elderly is seen as a major application. There are insufficient workers to handle the aging population, and robots have been developed to wash, monitor and even entertain their wards.

Bronchial | South Nassau Communities Hospital Cancer support robot ...

A team of six experts, doctors involved in the operation:? Shahriyour Andaz, MD, FACS, director of South Nassau Thoracic Oncology, Alan Blum, MD, a specialist in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Stewart Fox, MD, FACS, cardiothoracic surgeons, Arun Gupta, MD, a specialist in internal medicine and cardiology, Evan Mair, MD, director of body imaging in the south of Nassau, and Kenneth Richman, MD, an interventional radiologist.

The operation was conducted on a patient of 63 years, an active smoker with a history of coughing blood stains, a common symptom of lung cancer. The doctors ordered a CT scan and biopsy, a malignant tumor, the two lobes of the right lung reveals diverse. After careful examination of images of the tumor and the location and evaluation of the patient benefits from the robotic-assisted bilobectomy compared to a thoracotomy, the team took a unanimous decision bilobectomy perform the da Vinci ® system.

A thoracotomy is an invasive major surgery where the surgeon opens the chest, a portion or all of the lung removed. To perform a thoracotomy surgery, the surgeon makes an incision on the long side of the chest between the ribs. The ribs are separated, so that the surgeon can see into the chest cavity, and sometimes it's necessary? Piece of rib removed so the surgeon to remove the cancer. Most patients in the clinic for at least 10 days after a thoracotomy and requires two to four months to achieve a complete cure, although some people do not, most normal activities within six to eight weeks.

To complete the bilobectomy with the da Vinci, Drs Andaz and Fox had only four small incisions in the chest, which were used to make? Small, thin pencil robot-assisted surgical instruments to insert it. They used the instruments at first carefully and accurately analyze large blood vessels leading to give heart and lungs. If two separate lobes of the right lung bronchi, trachea and heart and lung. Patient's postoperative recovery was quick and without complications and was released four days later, South Nassau.

Recognized as the most advanced robot in the world, surgical technique, the da Vinci in recognition and honor of Leonardo da Vinci, who invented the first robot and used to give an incomparable precision and dimensional data for these masterpieces to life. Similarly, the Da Vinci robotic surgical system to perform complicated surgical operations with exquisite talent, precision and control, through small incisions. In addition to the precision and control are the advantages for surgeons with a greater range of motion, better visualization and improved access. Patient benefits of robotic-assisted surgery include a shorter hospital stay, less pain and risk of infection, less scarring and blood loss, fewer transfusions, quicker recovery after surgery and a faster return to normal daily activities.

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