I’m often asked to give an opinion on the benefits, pros and cons of the different architectures of soft tissue surgical robots. Today I’ve dropped a categorisation of the different architecture types with my opinion on this. Having now driven many of the robots out there, been in hundreds of procedures - this is how I see them as of today.
Of course under these categories there are many different companies making their robots based on these architectures. If you want the pro and con of up to 60 different systems they are in this list here — https://www.howtostartupinmedtech.com/post/version-2-ultimate-soft-tissue-surgical-robot-comparison-chart
But for today you can understand the basic architectures and the pros and the cons by architecture type (as I see it.)
Boom Multiport
Many think this is the “original” format of soft tissue surgical robots. But little known fact... the bed mounted ZEUS by computer motion with its small modular arms came out at the same time.