In 2016, researchers from the University of Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences launched a clinical trial to test the PRECEYES Surgical System, a robot designed to perform surgery on the retina, the surface at the back of the eye.
The results of the robot-assisted eye surgery were published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering.
A surgeon uses a joystick to control the mobile arm of the PRECEYES system. Doctors can attach various instruments to the arm, and because the system is robotic, it doesn’t suffer from any of the slight tremors that plague even the most steady-handed of humans.