Baltimore-based The Johns Hopkins Hospital leveraged the Excelsius robot, a real-time, image-guided robot for a spine surgery.
Here are five insights:
1. The robot, invented by Nicholas Theodore, MD, inserted screws into a patient's spine.
2. Dr. Theodore invented the technology before joining Johns Hopkins as a neurosurgery professor and director of the Neurosurgical Spine Center. He has a financial interest in the Excelsius robot.
3. He created the robot to enhance screw placement by automating accuracy and precision.
4. This robot combines a CT scan of the patient with the actual patient so a surgeon can determine the exact point a robot should place the screw on the CT scan.
5. Dr. Theodore said the robot may eventually be used for non-spine procedures as well.