TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran unveiled a surgeon robot named 'Sina' capable of carrying out surgical operations on patients from remote distances.
"The robot has an advanced performance in the field of remote surgery and corresponds to the American Da Vinci robot," the manager of the project to build Sina robot, Farzam Farahmand, said on Tuesday.
"By this robot, the surgeon makes different moves using a monitor and two surgery arms on that part of the body which should go under surgery and he/she is connected to the patient with a number of cameras," he added.
Noting that Sina remote surgeon robot has been designed and built by Sharif University of Technology and Tehran's Medical Sciences University, Farahmand said that the robot is mostly used for abdominal surgeries and has been tested on sheep.
Iran has in the last few years taken a wide stride in area of science and technology, including robotic sciences.
The development was made after Iranian researchers built a robot for rehabilitation of people suffering stroke which can return hands power to these individuals in four phases.
“We delivered robotic laboratory equipment in the study for industrial and rehabilitation purposes,” said Esmayeel Qareh khani, the lead author of the study, last month.
“We designed a rehabilitation robot for people with brain lesion, which is capable of rehabilitating hands,” he said, adding that the robot helps these people return link between their hands and brain network.
The first phase is diagnosis phase, during which some tracks are shown in the monitor. The patient puts his hand on the robot’s arm and takes its handle to lead the arm towards the tracks.
In the second phase, the patients who lack control on their arms take the robot’s handle to move towards a specific direction. The robot helps the patients and brings back sense to the patient’s hands after several days.
In the next phase, the patient can move the handle without any resistance and move towards the intended place.
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