{"id":556,"date":"2010-12-17T09:46:41","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/example.org\/total-knee-replacement-in-1-hour-seriously"},"modified":"2010-12-17T09:46:41","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T14:46:41","slug":"total-knee-replacement-in-1-hour-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/12\/total-knee-replacement-in-1-hour-seriously.html","title":{"rendered":"Knee Surgery In 1 Hour &#8212; Seriously"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great customer visit yesterday to Mako Surgical in Florida <a href=\"https:\/\/www.makosurgical.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.makosurgical.com\">www.makosurgical.com<\/a>.&#0160; Knee surgery in 1 hour. &#0160;Home same day. &#0160;Walk that night. &#0160;No kidding.<\/p>\n<p>An absolutely amazing collection of many cool technologies. &#0160;CAT scans, complex SolidWorks surfacing, their own high-accuracy robot inspired by Barrett Technology <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barrett.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"www.barrett.com\">www.barrett.com<\/a>, haptics (feel things that aren&#39;t there), SolidWorks modeling of virtual spaces to control surgical cutting, 3D positioning that is so precise (sub-1mm accuracy) cuts can be made in bones while &#8212; get this &#8212; the bones are moving around, and a whole bunch of custom software to plan and control the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>And the resulting knee works way better than conventional knee surgery. &#0160;And now they are doing hips.<\/p>\n<p>Mako founder Rony Abovitz and team spent a decade combining a bunch of mind-blowing technology so that anatomy can be fixed with the precision of CNC manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>This may be the coolest systems engineering project I have ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Jon<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great customer visit yesterday to Mako Surgical in Florida www.makosurgical.com.&#0160; Knee surgery in 1 hour. &#0160;Home same day. &#0160;Walk that night. &#0160;No kidding. An absolutely amazing collection of many cool technologies. &#0160;CAT scans, complex SolidWorks surfacing, their own high-accuracy robot<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2010\/12\/total-knee-replacement-in-1-hour-seriously.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solidworks"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}