That question does not make sense.
Surgeries are performed by surgeons, not by robots. Robots are nothing but surgical tools or aids.
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What is the FDA 510(k) clearance for surgical robots ?
Several surgical robots get the FDA 510(k) clearance, which means they are proven to be equivalent to the already-approved surgical techniques.
Here is a story behind the FDA approval. ISS could not get through FDA approval procedures because they claimed their surgical robot, robodoc, used a new kind of surgical techniques. They changed their claim and applied for the FDA 510(k). Finally, they got the FDA approval. The FDA 510(k) document of the robodoc can be found at the following link:
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf7/K072629.pdf
Since the robodoc succeeded in getting the FDA 510(k), other surgical robots including da Vinci have followed the FDA 510(k) approval path.
What is the inconvenient truth that medical robot companies and hospitals will never tell you ?
Do you really want to know this ?
Please go to the FDA web page and look at the FDA approval documents of medical robots.
Informally speaking, FDA approval is given to the specific-application of a medical robot, not the medical robot itself. That means if a hospital buys a medical robot and does whatever-we-want surgeries, it violates FDA regulations.
Do I need a real-time OS for industrial robot controllers ?
Yes and no, depending the hardware structure of your controller.
“Soft real-time OS” is enough except for servo control tasks. If servo control tasks are responsible for the position, velocity and current control of PMSMs (permanent-magnet synchronous motors), the servo control tasks have no way of escaping from “hard real-time OS”.