'Instrument flight' to the inner ear
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 - 14:31
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A high-precision surgical robot for cochlear implantation has been developed by a team of surgeons and engineers. To embed an electronic cochlear implant device into the ear of a deaf patient, the surgeon has to create a precise access from behind the ear, through the skull bone all the way into the inner ear.