The Importance of Haptic Feedback in Robotic Surgery

Haptic feedback plays a very important role in surgery. It enables the surgeon to make appropriate decisions and helps him/her to perform surgery successfully. Robotic surgery has been introduced as a new method in minimally invasive surgery which has many advantages over traditional approaches. Despite many benefits of robotic surgery, it has some problems and challenges. Lack of haptic feedback is one of the most important problems and limitations of robotic surgery systems. In most of researches, the importance and impact of haptic feedback in robotic surgery has been studied. Based on their results, haptic feedback can decrease the errors and reduce damaged tissues. In addition, this helps the surgeon to identify the tissues more accurately. Haptic feedback plays an effective role in the success of robotic surgery. Therefore, this type of feedback is essential in robotic surgery. Most of researchers try to create effective haptic feedbacks in order to solve one of the most important problems of robotic surgery.