I Built A Surgery Robot — Transcript
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- 0:00a Vinci Surgical System
- 0:05is the most advances streamlined
- 0:07surgical experience for minimally
- 0:09invasive surgery I could build that
- 0:14[Music]
- 0:20hey how's everyone's global health
- 0:22crisis going my house is on full goddamn
- 0:24quarantine and I'll probably be dead in
- 0:26a week anyway not from the virus like
- 0:28like a electrocution accident or
- 0:29something it's actually given me a lot
- 0:30of free time and what better way to
- 0:32spend a free time right now than to help
- 0:33the medical industry and I can't do any
- 0:35chemistry or biology or like body stuff
- 0:38yeah but I can do robotics and let me
- 0:40tell you those da Vinci Surgery robotics
- 0:42rat bastards are ripping hospitals off
- 0:44look at this two million dollars for one
- 0:46shitty robot they can spend that on a
- 0:48couple hundred bandages or like one
- 0:49ambulance right in the US we can build a
- 0:51better surgery robot for a lot less come
- 0:53on the biggest flaw in da Vinci's design
- 0:54is that it relies on these clunky slow
- 0:56robotic arms for movement say you're
- 0:58operating on a patient's life you start
- 1:00screaming out in pain you got to get up
- 1:01to a suite smack him around a little bit
- 1:02making shut up good [ __ ] luck with
- 1:04these robotic arms they're slow as [ __ ]
- 1:06and they don't have any travel distance
- 1:08instead we're gonna mount the surgical
- 1:09tools to a rail system that can move
- 1:10anywhere on the operating table
- 1:12hey look it's past Michael you know took
- 1:13them five whole days to 3d model and
- 1:15build one rail carriage what a [ __ ]
- 1:17and I shut the [ __ ] up this shit's hard
- 1:19biggie you little [ __ ] I'm the narrator
- 1:20I'm like God you cannot kill me here's
- 1:23what the final carriage looks like you
- 1:25see it uses wheel bearings there trouble
- 1:26up and down the slots in this aluminum
- 1:28rod but Michael you just gonna use your
- 1:29hand to make it move no you're stupid
- 1:31and I hate you for power we're using a
- 1:33brushless DC motor and an o drive to
- 1:35turn this into kind of like a brushless
- 1:37servo motor - I know what that means
- 1:39absolutely [ __ ] not I've never done
- 1:41this before what I do know is someone
- 1:43told my voice crack what I do know is
- 1:45someone told me this would be fast and
- 1:46very accurate and all you have to do to
- 1:48put it in is
- 1:49[Music]
- 1:54I forgot to record all the sound effects
- 1:56okay give me a [ __ ] break
- 1:58hey I got the motor very professionally
- 2:01hooked up to the driver board which is
- 2:03hooked up to my computer so we can see
- 2:04what this thing can do okay so this is
- 2:07the like calibration sequence I needs to
- 2:08do this before it actually runs oh
- 2:11that's so [ __ ] sick oh I think it it
- 2:14should be a little faster though oh okay
- 2:17the motor has default parameters so you
- 2:19can just turn those off let's try it out
- 2:20now oh that's good this that's fast I
- 2:32mean one second okay you just stand down
- 2:34right there we just got to put a few of
- 2:41these together and it looks like this I
- 2:43did the perky little snap teleportation
- 2:44thing right that was three weeks ago I'm
- 2:46[ __ ] tired but I built this test
- 2:48platform out of aluminum and wood that I
- 2:50stole from my girlfriend's bed frame
- 2:52it's not like I can go to Home Depot on
- 2:54quarantine it's just a prototype so I
- 2:56can write and test the software before I
- 2:57build the actual thing but even the
- 2:59prototype is pretty cool it's the same
- 3:00idea with the motor carriage on the
- 3:02x-axis but now we have two additional
- 3:03motors on the y-axis and on their own
- 3:05they're just motors they don't know how
- 3:06to talk to each other they don't know
- 3:07how to cooperate but if you read some
- 3:09software they can talk to all the motors
- 3:10you can make it do pretty much anything
- 3:11you want this is the homing sequence it
- 3:14figured out the bounds of the machine by
- 3:16measuring the amperage of the motor on
- 3:18the motors when they stop yeah you can
- 3:23make it you can make it do this [ __ ]
- 3:25maybe not as stable as you want it to be
- 3:27but yeah it's just a prototype so stupid
- 3:31so I'm controlling with my mouse right
- 3:32now it looks jerky and awful but it's
- 3:34actually got a really good amount of
- 3:36precision to it it's kind of going in a
- 3:38circle from the top-down view like I
- 3:39said this is not the final surgery robot
- 3:42it's gonna be much more refined much
- 3:43more medical looking you know much more
- 3:45safe for the user and all that movement
- 3:47was controlled by the code I wrote don't
- 3:48worry I'm not gonna show it I know
- 3:49everyone thinks is boring so excited I
- 3:51don't give a [ __ ] what you think look at
- 3:52this dynamic bounds detection routine
- 3:54that's [ __ ] sick here's a limit
- 3:56switch you can put it here didn't take
- 3:57the bounds of your machine via [ __ ] that
- 3:59limit switch it scream instead write
- 4:01some code that steps the motor forward
- 4:02until it starts using a lot of power
- 4:03then you know you the edge of the rail
- 4:05and then you know exact
- 4:06you are in relation to the balance of
- 4:07the machine it's [ __ ] sick look how
- 4:09cool the cold part is guys I'm gonna
- 4:11keep going this part applies the scaling
- 4:12factors that are calculated as a
- 4:14function of the input but Michael I hear
- 4:16you ask so you can move the carriage
- 4:17over any part of the operating table you
- 4:19want great but how are you gonna move
- 4:21the medical tools up and down to engage
- 4:23with the patient well that's where the
- 4:24carry edge utility mechanism comes into
- 4:26play that's the thing that's gonna move
- 4:27the scalpel or the clamp or whatever up
- 4:29and down which is great there's just a
- 4:30small problem slight problem well I
- 4:32built it I built it which is a good
- 4:33thing my original plan was you know just
- 4:34to have a thin piece of plastic with a
- 4:36motor attached to it that moves a play
- 4:38easy but then I thought I saw that thing
- 4:40okay there's no way that's gonna survive
- 4:42so I'm gonna make it a little strong
- 4:43yeah I may as well make a goal of faster
- 4:45I got a little carried away and it looks
- 4:47like a time bomb and it weighs ten
- 4:48[ __ ] fell it works great the motor
- 4:50precisely moves the mounting plate up
- 4:52and down wherever you wanted to go the
- 4:54thing is I just don't know if those
- 4:55motors can handle ten pounds so we're
- 4:57gonna have to do a little test Michael
- 4:59why don't you just use the period
- 5:00utility mechanism to test it out well it
- 5:03took me a long time to build and it's
- 5:04[ __ ] beautiful
- 5:05so prime or it looks like it's handling
- 5:07small movements pretty well y-axis
- 5:10action okay that's not that bad oh it's
- 5:13fine it'll be slide we're gonna probably
- 5:15just go ahead and make the final version
- 5:17and it looks like this I do the stupid
- 5:19hand thing again it's been three more
- 5:20weeks I've severe depression but Michael
- 5:22where's the surgery robot wait for it
- 5:24wait for it Oh big reveal this is the
- 5:26surgery we'll buy massive payoff huge I
- 5:28have brain damage
- 5:29behold the superior surgery robot you da
- 5:31Vinci [ __ ] Orton's
- 5:32it's got the come it's got the cable
- 5:34management it's got the super [ __ ]
- 5:36hard-to-reach driver boards like don't
- 5:37know why put him under here I thought it
- 5:39would look cool Michael work doesn't
- 5:42work it doesn't work I don't know if it
- 5:45works I haven't turned it on yet I've
- 5:46been too afraid since it took me so long
- 5:47to build so I turned the camera on so
- 5:49you can at least see my tears when it
- 5:51tears itself apart I'm worried about
- 5:52this [ __ ] because when I built it I like
- 5:54the bull the caveman brain metal strong
- 5:56metal not strong metal more like
- 5:58McDonald's playplace trampoline but you
- 6:00got to take chances when you're
- 6:02innovating on the next great thing so
- 6:03I'm gonna turn it on oh god oh boy yeah
- 6:07okay please are the machines working now
- 6:11we can start to control it but Michael
- 6:13where's the controller [ __ ] you you are
- 6:15the controller I got this VR hand
- 6:17tracking camera off of Amazon that works
- 6:19super goddamn well so you just take the
- 6:20hand coordinates from this pipe him in
- 6:22the surgery robot and bing-bang-boom
- 6:24oh [ __ ] you DaVinci robotics you can
- 6:34move my thing with just floating your
- 6:36hand around robot go here robot be
- 6:38surgery hero no patient bleeding there
- 6:40oh do surgery there on that part how
- 6:43about you'd be surgery over here now
- 6:45this is you over there and now the
- 6:46surgery but you da Vinci shitty robot
- 6:49can't do that you need to squeeze those
- 6:51little metal robot cheeks to do yours
- 6:53[ __ ] before I sell my design to surgeons
- 6:56across the nation we have to attach some
- 6:58surgical tools to the come because
- 7:00otherwise it's just a big-ass robot so
- 7:02let's buy a scalpel on Amazon wow that
- 7:04is just unacceptable scalpels are gonna
- 7:06take a whole three days well that's
- 7:08pretty reasonable but no that's messed
- 7:10up dang global health crisis that's far
- 7:12too long if only I had an alternative
- 7:15you really think about it scalpels are
- 7:17just shitty smaller knives so why don't
- 7:19we just use bigger better knives like
- 7:21Hello we already have those wake up
- 7:24sheeple are you tired of outdated
- 7:26surgical technology are you looking for
- 7:28the cutting edge and power precision and
- 7:31usability look no further the future of
- 7:33surgical robotics is here unlike some
- 7:40other surgical systems we've run a gamut
- 7:42of tests to ensure our machine has power
- 7:45I'm gonna stab a pineapple mincing the
- 7:48operation operate on it surgically over
- 7:53here now patient small incision a small
- 7:57incision we're all moving the patient
- 7:59and commence surgery on the patient the
- 8:01power isn't the only thing we strive for
- 8:03precision is an essential tenet of
- 8:05surgery and we make no exceptions when
- 8:07testing for accuracy ding ding Lily come
- 8:13on please
- 8:13[Music]
- 8:19oh yeah I'm not gonna pressure you but
- 8:32this is supposed to show how accurate my
- 8:33machine is gonna be so long let's see a
- 8:41DaVinci try to do that you might be
- 8:43wondering is the system fda-approved but
- 8:49don't just take our word for it here's
- 8:51what a real medical professional has to
- 8:52say about this innovative new technology
- 8:55we're gonna go for like a laparoscopic
- 8:56appendectomy so if we just make a small
- 8:58incision above the chest here we can a
- 9:03little bit more difficult for some
- 9:04procedures but not you can see you still
- 9:07have a lot more accurate control than a
- 9:09lot of surgical systems [ __ ] off
- 9:12like I was saying moving the patient is
- 9:14a lot easier with the system like
- 9:16normally enough to manually move them
- 9:18newbie would you add this to your
- 9:20hospital you think hospitals could adopt
- 9:23seems a little dangerous okay I
- 9:25appreciate the feedback
- 9:27you're wrong last but not least we've
- 9:29made our machines so intuitive that
- 9:30anyone can do surgery with no prior
- 9:33training so you've never seen this clean
- 9:34machine before in your life it's perfect
- 9:36because this study is to see if we can
- 9:39bring someone from zero skill level all
- 9:41the way up to the ability of a surgeon
- 9:42dude up right in front I'm not too close
- 9:44because it's kind of dangerous though
- 9:46just put your hand up
- 9:50could you just put your hand out above
- 9:52the things higher up control the knife
- 9:55cause if you can move it further closer
- 9:57and it'll get further away from you
- 9:59we're gonna make a small incision right
- 10:01above the ear another incision to stop
- 10:13plug the hole with the knife yeah got
- 10:14perfect nice yeah you owe this listen
- 10:18it's okay no it's fine it's it's
- 10:20learning it's a learning experience
- 10:21crying retracts a knife from
- 10:23the head let's just try and get it out
- 10:25of ya okay good incision if your
- 10:34patients over here and you don't want
- 10:35them to be able to move them over here
- 10:37do some surgery over here and move them
- 10:38back I don't even know what surgery this
- 10:39is supposed to be
- 10:40thank you for watching that concludes
- 10:42research and development for my surgical
- 10:45system if you're a hospital looking to
- 10:46try it out follow me on Twitter
- 10:48subscribe to me on youtube and maybe
- 10:50just maybe I'll let you borrow it for a
- 10:52bit
- 10:52remember stay in school smoke crack [ __ ]
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- 11:01send them aside early and they're gonna
- 11:02have no [ __ ] idea what's going on ray
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- 11:50that's the end of the video that's the
- 11:52end thank you bye
- 11:56[Music]
- 12:29you
- 12:30[Music]
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