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Teleoperated Surgery: Motion Scaling & Tremor Filtering

Drive a master hand controller and watch a tiny slave surgical instrument mirror it through a tremor filter and a motion-scale reducer. Compare a filtered, scaled-down instrument against an unfiltered 1:1 reference to see why teleoperated surgical robots are steadier than an unaided human hand.

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A master-slave surgical robot never lets the surgeon's hand touch the patient. The hand's raw motion — including the small, fast tremor every human hand has — is measured on a master controller, run through a low-pass filter that strips the tremor while keeping deliberate movement, then scaled down before a tiny slave instrument reproduces it inside the patient. This simulator lets you drive the master controller directly and compares the resulting instrument motion, filtered and scaled, against an unfiltered 1:1 reference showing what the same hand movement would do without robotic mediation.

⚙ Under the hood

Drive a master hand controller and watch a tiny slave surgical instrument mirror it through a tremor filter and a motion-scale reducer. Compare the filtered, scaled-down instrument tip against a faint unfiltered 1:1 reference tip to see why a robotically mediated hand is steadier and finer than the unaided hand at a millimetre-scale surgical target.

roboticsmedicinesurgical roboticsteleoperationmaster-slave controltremor filteringmotion scalingda Vinci

3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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