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Medical Robot Timeline

By Kaliiii.x3
  • 1000 BCE

    First signs of robots

    First signs of robots
    The first signs of robots were puppets and the humans controlled them

  • First robot ever made

    First robot ever made
    George Devol invented the first digitally operated and a programmable robot called the Unimate

  • First surgical robot

    First surgical robot
    the first robot surgical assistant came out. It was a robotic surgical arm used for a neurosurgical biopsy.

  • FDA approved

    FDA approved
    The da vinci system became the first robotic surgical system to be cleared by the FDA.

  • Robodoc

    Robodoc
    the Robodoc was introduced for use in hip replacement surgery

  • First Surgery done by a robot

    First Surgery done by a robot
    Dr. Senthil Nathan completed the first robotic surgery completely done by a robot.

  • Injured Soldiers

    Injured Soldiers
    The DARPA funded research that would allow an injured soldier to be loaded onto a vehicle where a surgeon could use robotics to make real time medical decisions until a soldier could reach proper medical care.

  • The neuroArm

    The neuroArm
    Dr. Garnette Sutherland and his team developed neuroArm which merges robots and uses motion control

  • First surgery to make history

    First surgery to make history
    A surgical system made history by performing the first brain surgery to remove a tumor by its MRI compatible robots.

  • First doctor robot

    First doctor robot
    A doctor calls from the monitor of the robot and moves around by the robot even though there not even a the hospital