Patent ID: 11857273
Assignee: GLOBUS MEDICAL INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A

Claim 13:
14. A surgical robot system comprising:
a robot having a robot base, a robot arm coupled to the robot base, and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm, the end-effector configured to guide movement of a surgical instrument;
an ultrasound (US) transducer coupled to the end-effector and operative to output US imaging data of anatomical structure proximately located to the end-effector; and
at least one processor operative to obtain an image volume for the patient and to track pose of the end-effector relative to anatomical structure captured in the image volume based on the US imaging data,
wherein the at least one processor is further operative to:
determine a target pose for the surgical instrument based on a surgical plan defining where a surgical procedure is to be performed using the surgical instrument on the anatomical structure captured in the image volume; and
generate steering information based on the target pose for the surgical instrument and a present tracked pose of the end-effector relative to the anatomical structure captured in the image volume, the steering information indicating where the surgical instrument and/or the end-effector need to be moved.