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Walking across the retina in VR microsurgery earns NIH award

Dr. Mark Draelos, assistant professor of robotics and ophthalmology, received the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Award for a project which seeks to improve how delicate microsurgeries are conducted by scaling up tissue to a size where surgeons could “walk across the retina” in virtual reality and operate on tissue as if “raking leaves.” “We want to change the scale of the surgical procedure and make it human size, so it’s much more comfortable for the surgeon to operate,” said Draelos. “We do this by capturing a 3D reconstruction of the surgical field in real time, and immerse the surgeon in virtual reality. We then take the surgeon’s movements that they perform at human scale and minify them down for a robot to perform very precisely.” Read more... https://robotics.umich.edu/news/2025/...