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AssigneeMAKO Surgical Corp.
InventorsDavid Gene Bowling, John Michael Stuart, Jerry A. Culp, Donald W. Malackowski, Jose Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera, Patrick Roessler, Joel N. Beer
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A system includes a robotic manipulator comprising an arm and an end effector coupled to the arm and being moveable by the arm for interacting with a target site in a manual mode and an autonomous mode of operation. A navigation system is configured to track a position of the end effector and the target site. One or more controllers are configured to define a first virtual boundary relative to the target site, prevent the end effector from penetrating the first virtual boundary in the manual mode, and allow the end effector to penetrate the first virtual boundary in the autonomous mode.
A system comprising:
A method of operating a system, the system comprising a robotic manipulator including an arm, an end effector coupled to the arm and being moveable by the arm for interacting with a target site in a manual mode and an autonomous mode of operation, a navigation system configured to track a position of the end effector and the target site, and one or more controllers for performing the steps of:
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