Patent ID: 6949106

Claim:
A master station of a master/slave surgery system, adapted to be manually manipulated by a surgeon to, in turn, control motion at a slave station at which is disposed a surgical instrument in response to the surgeon manipulation, said master station comprising: a lower positioner assembly; an upper positioner assembly supported over said lower positioner assembly and rotational relative to said lower positioner assembly to enable lateral side-to-side surgeon manipulation; and an arm assembly including an elongated arm member, and having a hand assembly at its distal end for engagement by the surgeon's hand, and a proximal end of the hand assembly pivotally supported from said upper positioner assembly to enable an orthogonal forward-and-back surgeon manipulation in a direction substantially orthogonal to the lateral surgeon manipulation; said assemblies being disposed remote from said slave station and to the side of the operator so that the arm member extends in a direction along at least a portion of the operator's arm.