• Question: What is your favourite wearable robotic that you've created for healthcare and how did it impact the medical community?

    Asked by x.kayleighanne to Tonia on 8 Jun 2019.
    • Photo: Tonia Tzemanaki

      Tonia Tzemanaki answered on 8 Jun 2019:

      During my doctoral studies I created a robotic hand exoskeleton (like a glove) that senses what your hand and fingers are doing when you wear it. I used this information to move a small robotic hand that could replace surgical instruments in the future. The system is still being improved and tested.

      When it becomes a product that hospitals can buy and surgeons can use, it could improve surgeries by making the surgeons more efficient at what they do. The surgeons that I worked with on this project are very keen on itand believe that it could change the way they do things to the better: make surgeries shorter, surgeons more dexterous and precise and patients would go back to normal life sooner after operation.

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