Technology
What Products Use Haptics?
Leading brands use haptics to create compelling and realistic user experiences. Their products are winning awards, receiving acclaim, and delighting customers through the interactive and engaging sense of touch.
Medical
Realistic interfaces for enhancing clinical proficiency
Mako Surgical: RIO Robotic Arm System
MDEA-winners excel in innovation, design and engineering of healthcare delivery products that achieve end-user benefit, and cost-effectiveness
The MAKO RIO is a surgeon interactive tactile surgical simulation platform that incorporates a robotic arm and patient-specific, three-dimensional visualization technology and prepares the knee joint for the insertion and alignment of MAKO’s resurfacing RESTORIS implants through a minimal incision. MAKO’s robotic arm system is the first FDA-cleared robotic arm system for orthopedic surgery. The system enables a high level of precision and optimal positioning of the implants and provides the potential for improved surgical outcomes, with a less invasive partial knee resurfacing procedure that spares healthy bone and tissue, preserves ligaments and allows for a more rapid recovery and a more natural feeling knee.
RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System by Mako Surgical Corp. Wins 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award
"…currently, I find that the robotic arm really allows me to go that extra mile for my patients."
—Stefan Kreuzer, M.D.
"…the type of robot that we use, that still is physician-controlled but gets the precision down to millimeters is unheard of before in orthopedics."
—Martin Roche
Laerdal Virtual I.V. Simulator
Improve student’s clinical assessment and performance in IV insertion and phlebotomy
Laerdal's Virtual I.V. is a comprehensive, fully interactive self-directed learning system for training intravenous catheterization. Powerful 3D graphics provide visual realism, while a state-of-the-art force feedback device accurately simulates the sense of touch for a truly immersive experience. The Virtual IV system promotes the development, maintenance, and assessment of the motor skills and cognitive knowledge needed to perform intravenous access procedures. It allows students, nurses, and other practitioners to practice intravenous skills to help obtain and maintain proficiency and nurse educators and program directors to fulfill training needs.
Many nursing educators face the challenge of incorporating simulation into the classroom. They want to plan and implement a simulation training program but aren’t sure where to start: Read Laerdal's simulation education success story, "Ridgewater improves clinical performance and students' results in clinical assessments"
Seeing that simulation enables more in debth learning is spurring this university to integrate the new training program with all their healthcare disciplines. Read, "Metropolia University of Applied Sciences."
CAE EndoscopyVR Surgical Simulator
Most accurate physiology, better haptics, most advanced bronchoscopy content
The EndoscopyVR simulator is a surgical platform that supplies a realistic training environment for both gastrointestinal and bronchoscopy procedures. A modular approach to learning allows students to practice skills and gain confidence in a safe environment prior to advancing to more difficult procedures. The EndoscopyVR simulator offers superior force feedback sensation, physiological and anatomically correct simulation, extensive didactic aids, thorough metrics reports, vital signs and ability to administer drugs.
"In the operating room, charges are made by the minute. The repetition provided by the simulators can reduce procedure time in the O.R. This translates to cost savings without compromising quality of care."
—Dr. Matthew Blum
Section Chief of Thoracic Surgery
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
"Now, using simulation, instead of walking in as novices, our fellows walk in with a fairly high level of experience."
—Dr. James C. Reynolds
Interim Chair of Medicine
Drexel University College of Medicine