Eye-Surgery Robot Study at the U

Researchers at the University of Utah’s John A. Moran Eye Center and the John and Marcia Price College of Engineering have collaborated to create a new robotic surgery device that aims to give surgeons “superhuman” hands.

The researchers successfully tested the robot using enucleated pig eyes, publishing their results in the journal Science Robotics. The study was led by Jake Abbott, a professor in Price Engineering’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Robotics Center, and Moran Eye Center retinal specialist Paul S. Bernstein, MD, PhD.

Coauthors include Abbott lab members Nicholas Posselli, PhD, and Robotics student Zachary Olson, Moran Eye Center retinal specialist Eileen Hwang, MD, PhD, and Aaron Nagiel, MD, PhD, of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine.