Robotic surgery system with inverted augment mode
AssigneeMAKO Surgical Corp.
InventorsMatthew THOMPSON, Varun CHANDRA
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Abstract
A surgical robotics system includes a robotic arm, a first cutting tool, a second cutting tool, and a computer. The computer is programmed to obtain a planned pose of an implant augment relative to a bone, the implant augment having a curved side and a flat side, determine whether the curved side or the flat side faces the bone, in response to a determination that the curved side faces the bone, control the robotic arm to guide the first cutting tool to prepare the bone to receive the implant augment, and in response to a determination that the flat side faces the bone, control the robotic arm to guide the second cutting tool to prepare the bone to receive the implant augment.
Claims20
A surgical robotics system, comprising:
- a robotic arm;
- a first cutting tool;
- a second cutting tool;
- and
- a computer programmed to:
- obtain a planned pose of an implant augment relative to a bone, the implant augment having a curved side and a flat side;
- determine whether the curved side or the flat side of the implant augment faces the bone in the planned pose;
- in response to a determination that the curved side faces the bone, control the robotic arm to guide the first cutting tool to prepare the bone to receive the implant augment;
- and
- in response to a determination that the flat side faces the bone, control the robotic arm to guide the second cutting tool to prepare the bone to receive the implant augment.
A method for a surgical robotics system, comprising:
- obtaining a planned pose of an implant augment relative to a bone, the implant augment having a curved side and a flat side;
- automatically making a determination as to whether the curved side or the flat side faces the bone in the planned pose;
- automatically selecting between cutting tools based on the determination as to whether the curved side or the flat side faces the bone;
- and
- controlling a robotic arm to guide the selected cutting tool in preparing the bone to receive the implant augment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.