Project History and Background Materials
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Think Surgical, Inc. (Fremont, California)
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content: Records of Think Surgical, Inc.
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1985 - 2003
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1378, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series consists of background materials and the history of the project primarily through correspondence. 

Integrated Surgical Systems (ISS) , Inc., of Sacramento California was established in XXXX to develop computer-based, image-driven, surgical robotics systems. The company integrates sophisticated imaging and robotics technologies into precision application-oriented tools for exacting surgical procedures. 

The company grew out of by Dr. Howard A. "Hap" Paul  (1949-1993) and orthopaedic surgeon Dr. William Bargar (XXXX) collaboration with IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the University of California, Davis. In 1990, Robodoc™ Surgical Assistant System was successfully used by Dr. Paul to perform the world's first robotic-assisted total hip replacement surgery on a dog. ISS began a limited feasibility study of Robodoc™, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for human surgery from 1992-1993 at Sutter General Hospital. 

The Robodoc™ System consists of two integrated components which comprise the single turnkey system, the Orthodo™c preoperative planning workstation and Robodoc™, the computer controlled surgical robot.