Surgeons working with the SINA Surgery System at an Indonesian hospital are pleased with the performance of the robots used in the system, Press TV reported.
According to the report, around 100 new Indonesian surgeons have applied to participate in a training course on how to use SINA in their robot-assisted remote science project. This is on top of the 112 surgeons who have been taking part in the course since the system was supplied to Indonesia two years ago.
Indonesia hopes once approved, SINA can help expand the country’s robotic remote cluster centre to connect the western and eastern islands at a distance of 3,500 kilometers.
Designed and manufactured by an Iranian robotics company, Sina uses robots to mimic the surgeon’s hand movements during surgery.
This system applies a minimally invasive approach to surgery by cutting a 5 mm incision into the body area where surgery is required. This significantly reduces the patient’s recovery time after surgery and allows for more precise stitching to close the wound.
The robot copies all centimeters of 1 cm with the movement of the surgeon’s hand in 1 mm movement into the patient’s body. This allows the surgeon to sew the wounds on a larger dimension of the system console while the robot is copying the stitches to the body at one tenth of its size.
SINA is the product of approximately 20 years of research work at the Medical University of Tehran. The people behind the project say that the device is a purely Iranian system built using expertise and technology developed by Iranian engineers and scientists.
The robot has won 10 patents in the US and other countries, but researchers have studied the system in over 70 papers from leading international scientific journals.
Reports show that agencies related to the Russian government have also expressed interest in the device.
MNA