Bengaluru: Larsen & Toubro (L&T) expects by 2025, 50% of all surgeries to be robot-assisted the company informed at 'Experience Walk-through' as part of a symposium on advancement in robot-assisted surgery.
Infrastructure and engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) organised to enable participants to get hands-on experience with cutting-edge products and solutions in the medical and medical equipment field.
Experts in the field including Professor Kesh Kesavadas from University of Illinois and the inventor of RoSS Robotic Surgery Simulator, the world's first stand-alone training system for da Vinci surgical system, and Dr. Ramalingam, from PSG Institute of Medical Science and Research, Coimbatore, expect the percentage of robot-assisted surgeries to jump to 50 per cent by 2025 from around 10 per cent today.
"Training surgeons to become proficient in the use of robots is a major challenge in India. Innovative low-cost training systems such as the Endo-Training kit and new VR/AR based training simulators such as RoSS promises to address the needs of the fast-growing clinical robotic sector," said Professor Kesh Kesavadas of the University of Illinois in the US.
The symposium was dedicated to discussing the possibilities and advancements in the field of Medical Robotics.
