Brian Davies (engineer)

Brian Davies
Nationality	British
Engineering career
Discipline	Medical robotics
Institutions	Imperial College London

Brian Davies is a British emeritus professor of medical robotics at Imperial College London. He developed Probot, the first robotic device to operate upon a human being. Later, he developed the haptic based robotic assistant known as 'Acrobot', the first haptic based robot to be used in orthopaedic surgery. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.

Career

Brian Davies began his career at Imperial College London in 1983. ^[1] He completed his doctorate in medical robotics. ^[1]

In 1987, working with urologist, John Wickham, Davies developed Probot, a robot for prostate surgery and in 1991 it was the first robotic device to operate upon a human being. ^{[2] [3] [4]} By 1999, with orthopaedic surgeon Justin Cobb, he developed the robotic assistant known as 'Acrobot', the first haptic based robot to be used in orthopaedic surgery. ^{[5] [6]} In 1999 he co-founded the spinout ‘Acrobot’, which was later acquired by Stanmore Implants. ^[1] In 2001 he was awarded a DSc. ^[1]

He later developed the robot Sculptor, to assist surgeons in replacing knee joints. ^{[7] [8]}

Awards

In 2015, for his work into robots, he was awarded the life-time achievement award by the International Society of Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA). ^[1]

Selected publications

• Jakopec, M.; Harris, S. J.; Rodriguez y Baena, F.; Gomes, P.; Cobb, J.; Davies, B. L. (1 January 2001). "The First Clinical Application of a "Hands-On" Robotic Knee Surgery System" . Computer Aided Surgery. 6 (6): 329–339. doi:10.3109/10929080109146302. ISSN   1092-9088. PMID   11954064. S2CID   219186608.
• Borelli, Joao; Bello, Fernando; Rodriguez Y Bena, Ferdinando; Davies, Brian (2004). "An active constraint environment for minimally invasive heart surgery: early experience of a cutting operation". Studies in Health Technology and Informatics. 98: 31–33. ISSN   0926-9630. PMID   15544236.
• Cobb, J.; Henckel, J.; Gomes, P.; Harris, S.; Jakopec, M.; Rodriguez, F.; Barrett, A.; Davies, B. (February 2006). "Hands-on robotic unicompartmental knee replacement: a prospective, randomised controlled study of the acrobot system". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. British Volume. 88 (2): 188–197. doi:10.1302/0301-620X.88B2.17220. ISSN   0301-620X. PMID   16434522.
• Davies, Brian (1 December 2006). "Essay: Medical robotics—a bright future" . The Lancet. 368: S53 –S54. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69929-7. ISSN   0140-6736. S2CID   54388891.

References

1. "Home - Professor Brian Davies". www.imperial.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2 February 2022. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
2. Walker, Peter S. (2020). "12. Instrumentation and technique". The Artificial Knee: An Ongoing Evolution. Switzerland: Springer. p. 222. ISBN   978-3-030-38170-7.
3. Badaan, Shadie R.; Stoianovici, Dan (2011). "59. Robotic systems: past, present, and future". In Hemal, Ashok Kumar; Menon, Mani (eds.). Robotics in Genitourinary Surgery. London: Springer. p. 661. ISBN   978-1-84882-113-2.
4. Dalela, Deepansh; Borchert, Alex; Sood, Akshay; Peabody, James (2019). "7. Basics of robotic surgery". In Hemal, Joseph A.; Howards, Stuart S.; Preminger, Glenn M.; Dmochowski, Roger R. (eds.). Hinman's Atlas of Urologic Surgery Revised Reprint (Fourth ed.). Philadelphia: Elsevier. p. 52. ISBN   978-0-323-65565-1.
5. Conditt, Michael (2011). "27. History of robotics in medicine". In Rosen, Jacob; Hannaford, Blake; Satava, Richard M. (eds.). Surgical Robotics: Systems Applications and Visions. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 672. ISBN   978-1-4419-1125-4.
6. Cobb, Justin (2007). "37. Hands-on robotic unicompartmental". In Stiehl, James B.; Konermann, Werner H.; Haaker, Rolf G.; DiGioia, A. M. (eds.). Navigation and MIS in Orthopedic Surgery. Springer. ISBN   978-3-540-36690-4.
7. Campbell, Denis (14 June 2008). "Robot takes the pain and guesswork out of knee and hip replacements". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
8. Towell, Elaine (1 October 2008). "Robotic surgery: the future is now". The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. 90 (9): 296–298. doi: 10.1308/147363508X358034 . ISSN   1473-6357.