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Closed surgical techniques for the internal jixation of4moral fiacture&equire orthopaedic surgeons to work in close proximity to X-rays. In addition to the occupational health risk this imposes, inexperienced surgeons often encounter great dificulty in achieving optimal positioning of fiacture repair $fixtures. A vision-guided robotic system has been proposed as a problems and an initial investigation involving two exemplar orthopaedic procedures has been undertakedobotic surgery assistants imposes rigorous safety-related design constraints, since the orthopaedic robot must operate in close proximity to the patient and operating staff: The design and implementation of a purpose-built robotic system for orthopaedic surgery assistance is described in this paper.

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