Patent ID: 11950865
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 19:
20. A surgical robot system for detecting the expected movement of a surgical instrument associated with the robot system, said robot system comprising:
a robot base;
a robot arm connected to and in electronic communication with the robot base;
an end-effector connected to the robot arm and in electronic communication with the robot base, wherein the end-effector comprises a guide tube and is configured to receive a surgical instrument, and
wherein at least one strain gauge is positioned on the surgical instrument coupled to the end-effector, each strain gauge is configured to measure forces associated with the insertion force of a surgical instrument disposed in the guide tube, and
wherein each strain gauge is configure to measure skiving forces applied to the surgical instrument;
wherein the robot base is configured to monitor a bone movement of the patient caused by a lateral force of the surgical instrument through a dynamic reference array attached to the patient; and
wherein the robot base is configured to automatically adjust the guide tube of the robot system to offset the bone movement based on the monitoring of the bone movement.