Matthew MacDougall

Yeah. I mean, I, you know, because, uh, um, an MD needs to be in charge of all of the medical decision-making throughout the process. Um, I unscrubbed from the surgery after exposing the brain and presenting it to the robot and, um, place the targets on the robot software interface that tells the robot where it's going to insert each thread.

That was done with my hand on the mouse for whatever that's worth.

That was done with my hand on the mouse for whatever that's worth.

That was done with my hand on the mouse for whatever that's worth.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Right. The software engineers are amazing on this team. They actually provided an interface where you can essentially use a lasso tool and select a prime area of brain real estate, and it will automatically avoid the blood vessels in that region and automatically place a bunch of targets. That allows

Right. The software engineers are amazing on this team. They actually provided an interface where you can essentially use a lasso tool and select a prime area of brain real estate, and it will automatically avoid the blood vessels in that region and automatically place a bunch of targets. That allows

Right. The software engineers are amazing on this team. They actually provided an interface where you can essentially use a lasso tool and select a prime area of brain real estate, and it will automatically avoid the blood vessels in that region and automatically place a bunch of targets. That allows

the human robot operator to select really good areas of brain and make dense applications of targets in those regions, the regions we think are gonna have the most high fidelity representations of finger movements and arm movement intentions.

the human robot operator to select really good areas of brain and make dense applications of targets in those regions, the regions we think are gonna have the most high fidelity representations of finger movements and arm movement intentions.

the human robot operator to select really good areas of brain and make dense applications of targets in those regions, the regions we think are gonna have the most high fidelity representations of finger movements and arm movement intentions.

Yeah, love that subreddit.

Yeah, love that subreddit.

Yeah, love that subreddit.

As a person who has a visceral reaction to the brain bleeding, I can tell you it's extremely satisfying watching the electrodes themselves go into the brain and not cause bleeding.

As a person who has a visceral reaction to the brain bleeding, I can tell you it's extremely satisfying watching the electrodes themselves go into the brain and not cause bleeding.

As a person who has a visceral reaction to the brain bleeding, I can tell you it's extremely satisfying watching the electrodes themselves go into the brain and not cause bleeding.

Yeah, so talking broadly about neurosurgery, we can get anywhere. It's routine for me to put deep brain stimulating electrodes near the very bottom of the brain, entering from the top and passing about a two millimeter wire all the way into the bottom of the brain. And that's not revolutionary. A lot of people do that. And we can do that with very high precision.