Our Approach
The Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory focuses on development of novel computer and engineering methods for image-guided therapy.
Our unique approach, where imaging, computing and robotics are integrated into one unit to enhance the capability of image-guided therapy, aims to advance a minimally invasive therapy and ultimately develop new treatment methods.
Being part of a clinical research program in a Harvard affiliated hospital, we stress actual clinical applications of the developed methods. We do science, engineering, and applications. The laboratory is under the direction of Dr. Nobuhiko Hata.
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Our Mission
The Surgical Navigation and Robotics Laboratory enables more effective and less invasive image-guided therapy.
We fulfill this mission through a commitment to:
- Developing innovative devices and mechanisms for robotic surgery
- Inventing computer and engineering methods for surgical navigation
- Applying the developed technologies in actual clinical cases and delivering unique feedback to the scientific research community
- Sharing our research data, software, and device design with industry and academic peers
- Applying synergistic coupling to scientific disciplines unaware of or presently disconnected from image-guided therapy