Automated system for laser-assisted dermatological treatment

An automated system for laser-assisted removal of a dermatological condition from skin, the system comprising:

• a robot arm assembly, including a robot arm, and a laser head with an image acquisition device and at least one proximity sensor, said laser head coupled to the robot arm and configured to emit a laser beam to remove the dermatological condition;
• a processing unit, with a memory in communication therewith, that generates and stores a virtual model of a skin surface area of a patient to be treated, based on pre-input patient-related data stored in the memory, the skin surface area to be treated including the dermatological condition to be removed,
• said virtual model comprising a two-dimensional representation of the skin surface area to be treated, the two-dimensional representation including a plurality of equal-sized sub-areas arranged into a grid, each sub-area of said sub-areas corresponding to an individual skin portion of the skin surface area to be treated,
• a size of each sub-area of the virtual model and each corresponding individual skin portion of the skin surface area to be treated being one square inch, and
• the processing unit further configured to perform dimensional calculations for each sub-area of the virtual model, including an amount of spatial deviation for correcting errors caused by skin surface irregularities and/or a degree of curvature of the skin surface area to be treated;
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• a controlling unit that issues a series of real-time feedback-based commands to the robot arm assembly, based on said virtual model, based on a series of parameter data which the controlling unit is configured to receive from the at least one proximity sensor, and based on the image acquisition device for each individual portion of skin defined within the boundaries of the skin surface area to be treated.