ROBO DOC

Injuries Centre (ISIC) in New Delhi’s Vasant Kunj, a team of spine surgeons led by Dr H.S. Chhabra, Medical Director-cum-Chief of Spine Services, is performing a complex surgery At the centre of action is a robot with four arms. While the patient is surrounded by the surgical team, the surgeon, seated four-five metres away, is directing the robot by moving the sticks on the console. He is focussed on viewfinder, the fourth arm of the robot, which gives a three-dimensional image of the surgical area that is magnified on a screen. The robot has done small incisions, pre-set earlier by the surgeon and his team. Its arms are capable of filtering out any shaking of the surgeon’s hands and ensure up to 99 per cent precision. In manual surgeries, which were the only option until two decades ago,