The Probot

The PROBOT is an active robot for prostate resection. It is designed to allow a surgeon to specify a volume within the prostate to be cut, and then automatically cut this without further intervention from the surgeon.

This page is divided into four sections:

• An introduction to the prostate and manual prostate surgery 
  
• An introduction to the robot hardware
  
• The method of cutting the prostate with the robot
  
• An overview of the prostate robot in use

The robot has been used at Guy's Hospital, London, with the co-operation of Mr. J. Wickham, Mr. S. Nathan and Mr. B.Kundu and Mr. Meganathan.