国産手術支援ロボット“hinotori^TM サージカルロボットシステム” について

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In recent years, along with the progress of minimally invasive surgery that reduces the burden on the patient, there is a growing need for robotic surgery. Japan is one of the world’s leading robot powers and has achieved more than half of the world’s market share of industrial robots, however, no made-in-Japan surgical robot had been launched on the market.

To meet such expectations for medical robots, Medicaroid was jointly established in 2013 by Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., a leading company of industrial robots, and Sysmex Corporation, an experienced business player which has expertise in inspection and diagnosis and an extensive network in the medical field. Medicaroid has been developing a medical robot based on the concept of “co-existence of humans and robots” since 2015, and finally achieved Japanese regulatory approval for the hinotori^TM Surgical Robot System, as the first made-in-Japan robotic assisted surgery system. This paper describes the details of the hinotori^TM Surgical Robot System.