Professor Jonathan Roberts
is a leading robotics researcher whose work in medical robotics includes developing systems that could lead to improvements in the safety and accuracy of minimally invasive surgery such as knee arthroscopies – the most common orthopaedic procedure in the world. Knee arthroscopies reduce patient pain and the chance of an infection while improving recovery time, but require surgeons to rely on arthroscope images that lack depth and have a narrow field of view, rather than seeing the site directly. Professor Roberts and colleagues demonstrated it is possible to develop a robotic assistant that constructs 3D models of the knee joints and automatically tracks the surgeon’s instruments with the camera, while also using visual feedback to position the knee appropriately – work designed to inspire companies to build such solutions at clinical scale.
Find Prof Robert’s QUT Academic Profile here.
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