Brian Davies (engineer)
Brian Davies | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | British |
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Medical robotics |
| Institutions | Imperial College London |
Brian Davies is a British emeritus professor of medical robotics at Imperial College London. He developed Probot, the first robotic device to operate upon a human being. Later, he developed the haptic based robotic assistant known as 'Acrobot', the first haptic based robot to be used in orthopaedic surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Career[edit]
Brian Davies began his career at Imperial College London in 1983.[1] He completed his doctorate in medical robotics.[1]
In 1987, working with urologist, John Wickham, Davies developed Probot, a robot for prostate surgery and in 1991 it was the first robotic device to operate upon a human being.[2][3][4] By 1999, with orthopaedic surgeon Justin Cobb, he developed the robotic assistant known as 'Acrobot', the first haptic based robot to be used in orthopaedic surgery.[5][6] In 1999 he co-founded the spinout ‘Acrobot’, which was later acquired by Stanmore Implants.[1] In 2001 he was awarded a DSc.[1]
He later developed the robot Sculptor, to assist surgeons in replacing knee joints.[7][8]
Awards[edit]
In 2015, for his work into robots, he was awarded the life-time achievement award by the International Society of Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA).[1]
Selected publications[edit]
- Jakopec, M.; Harris, S. J.; Rodriguez y Baena, F.; Gomes, P.; Cobb, J.; Davies, B. L. (1 January 2001). "The First Clinical Application of a "Hands-On" Robotic Knee Surgery System". Computer Aided Surgery. 6 (6): 329–339. doi:10.3109/10929080109146302. ISSN 1092-9088. PMID 11954064. S2CID 219186608.
- Borelli, Joao; Bello, Fernando; Rodriguez Y Bena, Ferdinando; Davies, Brian (2004). "An active constraint environment for minimally invasive heart surgery: early experience of a cutting operation". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 98: 31–33. ISSN 0926-9630. PMID 15544236.
- Cobb, J.; Henckel, J.; Gomes, P.; Harris, S.; Jakopec, M.; Rodriguez, F.; Barrett, A.; Davies, B. (February 2006). "Hands-on robotic unicompartmental knee replacement: a prospective, randomised controlled study of the acrobot system". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 88 (2): 188–197. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.88B2.17220. ISSN 0301-620X. PMID 16434522.
- Davies, Brian (1 December 2006). "Essay: Medical robotics—a bright future". The Lancet. 368: S53–S54. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69929-7. ISSN 0140-6736. S2CID 54388891.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e "Home - Professor Brian Davies". www.imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Walker, Peter S. (2020). "12. Instrumentation and technique". The Artificial Knee: An Ongoing Evolution. Switzerland: Springer. p. 222. ISBN 978-3-030-38170-7.
- ^ Badaan, Shadie R.; Stoianovici, Dan (2011). "59. Robotic systems: past, present, and future". In Hemal, Ashok Kumar; Menon, Mani (eds.). Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery. London: Springer. p. 661. ISBN 978-1-84882-113-2.
- ^ Dalela, Deepansh; Borchert, Alex; Sood, Akshay; Peabody, James (2019). "7. Basics of robotic surgery". In Hemal, Joseph A.; Howards, Stuart S.; Preminger, Glenn M.; Dmochowski, Roger R. (eds.). Hinman's Atlas of Urologic Surgery Revised Reprint (Fourth ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier. p. 52. ISBN 978-0-323-65565-1.
- ^ Conditt, Michael (2011). "27. History of robotics in medicine". In Rosen, Jacob; Hannaford, Blake; Satava, Richard M. (eds.). Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 672. ISBN 978-1-4419-1125-4.
- ^ Cobb, Justin (2007). "37. Hands-on robotic unicompartmental". In Stiehl, James B.; Konermann, Werner H.; Haaker, Rolf G.; DiGioia, A. M. (eds.). Navigation and MIS in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-36690-4.
- ^ Campbell, Denis (14 June 2008). "Robot takes the pain and guesswork out of knee and hip replacements". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
- ^ Towell, Elaine (1 October 2008). "Robotic surgery: the future is now". The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 90 (9): 296–298. doi:10.1308/147363508X358034. ISSN 1473-6357.
