Robotic Mouth Sings the "Natural" Way

When it comes to robotics, the sounds they make is either due to the machinery that runs them or an electronic recording that comes out of a speaker. Well, there's a scientist, Hideyuki Sawada , who is working on a robotic "mouth" that produces sound the same way humans do. - Lungs to power the voice using airflow - Vocal cords to create the noise to create a voice - Pharynx (Throat) to create the space and harmonic overtones that affect the "quality" of the voice …

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ENT Robotic Surgery

There has been increasing interest in using robots to help the surgeon perform complex surgical procedures within small spaces thereby saving the patient more invasive incisions. Especially in the world of ENT, surgery that may have required large incisions to the face and/or neck can now be accomplished without any incisions by using robotics to perform the same surgery, but entirely through the mouth. Such robotic surgery performed through the mouth is called T rans- O ral R obotic S …

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Robotic Surgery for Oral Cancer

I encountered these amazing pictures in the Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery Dec 2010 edition in an article titled "Transoral Robotic-Assisted Surgery for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma". This surgery was performed at Mayo Clinic as well as University of Alabama. Of note, there are also some YouTube videos of robotic surgery for thyroidectomy you can watch below or here . Reference: Transoral Robotic-Assisted Surgery for Head and Neck Squamous Cel…

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YouTube Video on Robotic Thyroidectomy Which Eliminates Neck Incisions

Surgeons in Texas have uploaded a YouTube video showing a thyroidectomy being performed by a robot under surgeon guidance without making any incision on the neck. The robot is utilizes the DaVinci system. Check it out here ! Non-robotic thyroid surgery can be seen in this video here  which does use a neck incision.

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