Students at the University of Washington hack Kinect to assist in robotic surgery

 

We are confident that there will come a time when we are less surprised Kinect hacks, but now we see yet another spectacular than the last – and we’re definitely OK with that.

This latest comes to us from a group of students at the University of Washington, who was the bright idea to a Microsoft with a number of projects, robot surgery is currently developing a pair of University Lab BioRobotics. This combination is not quite feeling reinforced Kinect robo-surgeon, you have concerns, however. students actually used to Kinect force feedback from the current human surgeons to control robotics – that would be $ 50.000 free offers Kinect. As might be expected, but Kinect-system is not quite ready to be used for the actual surgery as it is – but it gets the job done as a proof of concept, the students noted that the sensors should be adjusted lower, and the improved resolution would be considered suitable for surgical use.

 

 

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