AutoKNEE

Use Case

Imagine an orthopedic surgeon attending a conference out of state, seamlessly stepping into a remote operating room through the power of the AutoKNEE system. Upon receiving notification from their home hospital that a patient is ready for a Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA), the surgeon dons an Apple Vision Pro headset, instantly visualizing a high-fidelity digital twin of the KUKA Med 7 robotic arm and the patient’s anatomy, perfectly registered via the system’s perception stack. After verifying the digital alignment against a live video feed, the surgeon selects a visualized surgical guide, triggering the robot to autonomously navigate to the precise starting coordinates in 3D space. Using a handheld controller, the surgeon then takes command in a constrained co-bot mode, where the robot mimics their movements with sub-millimeter precision—filtering out tremors and enforcing safety boundaries—to execute the surgical cuts. Once the procedure is finalized and the arm smoothly returns to its neutral position, the surgeon performs a final manual inspection using the robot’s mounted camera to confirm the implant’s placement, completing a high-precision surgery from hundreds of miles away.