Patent ID: 8828023

Claim:
A medical work station for treating a living being with a medical instrument, the medical work station comprising: at least one robot arm, said robot arm including a plurality of members interconnected by joints and driven by respective drives for moving said members, said robot arm further including an attaching device for supporting the medical instrument thereon; at least one control device in communication with said drives of said at least one robot arm, said control device controlling said drives to move said attaching device; a display device operatively coupled with said control device and displaying at least one image of a treatment area during treatment of the living being; and an input device operatively coupled with said control device, wherein said control device has a first operating mode and a second operating mode, wherein when in the first operating mode, said input device is actuable by a user to selectively identify an area of the displayed image corresponding to the treatment area of the living being and said control device automatically calculates movement of said robot arm based on the identified area and actuates said drives to automatically perform a medical procedure in the treatment area of the living being corresponding to the identified area, and when in the second operating mode, said control device is configured to control movement of said robot arm to manual manipulation of said input device by a user such that movement of said robot arm corresponds to manual movement of said input device.