They are now testing to see if the brain uses similar methods to decode visual input. We hope that our study will contribute to the deciphering of the neural code, the way in which information is encoded by the sensory organs and decoded by the brain. Ehud Ahissar of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot said in a statement. The robot specializes in oral, facial, and jaw surgery. The robot's arm is able to move with extreme precision through the use of a unique combination of equipment, including three-dimensional imaging of the face or jaw.
Robots represent a quantum leap in terms of optimizing quality in particularly difficult operations.
The clinic's medical coordinator, Ernst Heissler, said he expected the robot to be used in its first operation - probably on patients at the Virchow Clinic, the Humboldt University's medical school, in as little as a year's time.