Today, automation is bridging the gap between concept and reality, creating an exciting frontier for the future of surgical robotic technologies. Novanta's portfolio of businesses spanning advanced photonics, robotics, automation, minimally invasive surgery, and automated identification & data collection is well-suited to lead the surgical robotic industry into this future and provide benefits to patients, hospitals, and surgical robot companies.
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Robots provide many inherent advantages over a human surgeon—they can move with more precision, they can hold instruments more rigidly, and they don’t fatigue over the course of long operations. However they’re also complicated machines that can be difficult to program and physically manipulate between positions during surgery. This is the biggest challenge that surgical robot companies face in driving adoption—how do they make robots an easy-to-use asset in the operating room, rather than an added layer of complexity?
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This is where ATI’s role in the market becomes clear. We provide Force/Torque sensing technology that increases the usability of robots while reducing the complexity of their deployment.
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Two aspects of our force sensors allow them to accomplish this. They behave predictably, reacting the way you expect them to when loads and forces are applied to them and feature industry-leading resolution, which allows them to respond well to sensitive inputs. From a programming standpoint, this makes very fine control schemes easier to achieve. Additionally, from a hand-guidance and ergonomics perspective, the robot becomes a fluid and natural extension of the surgeon.
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ATI has been innovating force sensing for over thirty years, and many of those have been spent working within the surgical robot sector.
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Our breadth of experience has not only enabled us to innovate exciting products, but it has also allowed us to bring them to market quickly. The stringent quality and certification needs of the medical industry are well known to ATI and navigating the processes to deliver compliant products has been an area of focus for us.
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Our years of working with surgical robotic companies have forged an aptitude for ensuring our force sensing products become certified for medical use as quickly as possible.
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Contact us today for more information.
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For more information about ATI's Force/Torque Sensor products, click here.
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