Seattle Doctor Folds and Throws Paper Airplane Using da Vinci Robot

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Dr. James Porter, medical director of robotic surgery at Swedish folds a small paper airplane with the da Vinci robot to demonstrate how this device gives surgeons greater surgical precision and dexterity over existing approaches.

Minimally invasive robot-assisted surgery can offer patients significant benefits over traditional approaches, including less post-operative pain, shorter hospital stay, less blood loss, faster recovery time and quicker return to normal daily activities.

Swedish is a leader in robot-assisted surgical procedures. Its program has a longstanding, successful track record of performing more prostate, kidney and gynecologic surgeries than any other medical center in the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. Swedish uses the da Vinci Surgical System to perform minimally invasive urological, gynecological and thoracic surgeries for diseases such as prostate cancer, kidney cancer, uterine cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer, and to assist in complex gynecologic reconstruction surgeries.

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For more information, visit: http://www.swedish.org/Services/Robot...

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[Bottlenecksify]

This music. It needs to stop. 

[Clemsnman]

Wow.

That is a really big penny!

[Omega9935]

It was hard.

[1021ebutuoy]

Wow ten million dollar micro paper plane maker.

[bizarrotx]

It wasn't impressive until the penny was thrown in, thanks to my ignorance I didn't understand the scale of this thing. Pretty cool video.

[Ozzie Beightol]

Not impressed, search for the guy who does origami with one of these.

[mattgoldfinger]

I just played with one yesterday at an interview. It is a binocular sight in a small hood. There is a pedal that lets you engage the camera. By moving your hands with the pedal depressed you can zoom and pan. The zoom i used was ~10X

[sil3nst]

put this man in a battle mech

[Z0DI4C]

What happened at 2:09? HELL no.

[ashesoneeight]

All these davinci vids show what the bot can do,but what does the doctor see?I hear its a HD 3d screen but how does it work??????????????????????????­??????

[esclrocks]

In case you were wondering what the song is, like I was, you won't have to wonder no more!

The song comes from FreePlayMusic (website in video description) and the name of the song is Psychosirrus, on the album Cinematic Electronic Vol 6.

[mrzack888]

u know if u constructed a few hundred of these da vinci robots and put them on an assembly line, all you needed was one human worker and the robots would replicate the movement and make hundreds of products from one human worker's movements.