Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery

The MRCAS Laboratory is the main laboratory of the Center for Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery. Our research involves both planning aspects of computer-assisted surgery, e.g., medical image computing and surgical simulation, and execution aspects, e.g., intraoperative sensing, registration, and actuation. Current projects include the HipNav system for total hip replacement surgery, the Image Overlay system for enhanced visualization of anatomical structures during surgery, projects simulating knee surgery and soft tissue properties, and the Intelligent Instrument project for enhanced manual accuracy in ophthalmologist microsurgery. Even when robotics technologies were relatively primitive, their potential role in boosting the productivity and competitiveness of the United States was foreseen in the evolving global marketplace. The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University was established in 1979 to conduct basic and applied research in robotics technologies relevant to industrial and societal tasks. Seeking to combine the practical and the theoretical, the Robotics Institute has diversified its efforts and approaches to robotics science while retaining its original goal of realizing the potential of the robotics field. Contact Us U.S.Mail The Robotics Institute 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh PA 15213-3890 1-412-268-3818 1-412-268-6436 (fax) Robotics Institute Director Matt Mason: matt.mason@cs.cmu.edu Robotics Institute Graduate Programs Admissions robotics.admissions@ri.cmu.edu Robotics Institute Administration Cheryl Wehrer: wehrer@cmu.edu Robotics Institute Public Relations & Press Releases Byron Spice: 1-412-268-9068, bspice@andrew.cmu.edu Robotics Institute General Questions robotics@ri.cmu.edu Robotics Institute Website Comments robotwebmaster@ri.cmu.edu