The Medical Lab is the new experimental facility of the PRISMA Team devoted to medical robotics. The lab is equipped with a da Vinci Research Kit and several collaborative robots employed for research in rehabilitation and surgical robotics. Cameras, EMG sensor kit and haptic interfaces are also available.
Venue: ICAROS Center, Polyclinic University of Naples Federico II, bldg. 5, via Pansini 5, 80131 Naples



- Open research platform based on da Vinci System by Intuitive Surgical
- Surgeon's console with two Master Tool Manipulators (MTMs)
- MTM 8-degree-of-freedom robot
- Patient's end with two Patient Side Manipulators (PSMs)
- PSM 7-degree-of-freedom robot
- PSMs teleoperated by MTMs with coordinated foot-pedal movements

- Medical version of KUKA IIWA
- 7 kg payload
- 7-degree-of-freedom robot
- In-line wrist variant
- Mounting flange DIN ISO 9409-1-A 50
- 0.1 mm repeatability (ISO 9283)
- KUKA Sunrise cabinet
- 22 kg weight (excluding controller)

- Robot for transanal prostate biopsy
- 3 kg payload
- 4 active degrees of freedom
- 2 passive degrees of freedom
- Soft wrist
- Mounting MicrUs Telemed ultrasound probe
- 15 kg weight (excluding controller)

- Bimanual mobile robotic platform
- Mobile base with differential drive, max speed 1 m/s
- 7-degree-of-freedom arms, 1-degree-of-freedom torso lift, 2-degree-of-freedom head
- RGB-D camera, 6-DoF IMU, 10 m laser, 3 x 1m sonar
- 2 x 5W audio speakers, 2-microphone array with stereo output
- CPU Intel i7, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD
- 2 36V 20 Ah batteries
- 802.11 n/ac 2x2 Dual Band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0
- Navigation and SLAM, manipulation, perception, speech recognition, human-robot interaction