Robots have been successfully used in commercial industry and have enabled humans to perform tasks which are repetitive, dangerous and requiring extreme force. Their role has evolved and now includes many aspects of surgery to improve safety and precision. Orthopaedic surgery is largely performed on bones which are rigid immobile structures which can easily be performed by robots with great pre...

Figure 2. Specimen mounted on the MTS. Intramedullary nails with distal interlocking screws locked to the nail may have higher fatigue strength in comminuted supracondylar femur fractures McDonald, E;, Fischer, J; Bartlett, T; Buckley, J.M; Pekmezci, M, +Kandemir, U +Biomechanical Testing Facility, UCSF/SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA D...

Figure 4 –Typical failures of the plugged (left), screw only (center) and unplugged (right) comparison groups. Can Fatigue Strength of Locking Plates be Improved by Plugging the Unfilled Screw Holes in Comminuted Supracondylar Femur Fractures McDonald, E; Firoozabadi, R; Nguyen, TQ; Buckley, J.M; +Kandemir, U +Biomechanical Testing Facility, UCSF/SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma, University of Californi...

Figure 2. Test Setup showing a locked plate, the multiaxial loading components and the 3D motion capture markers. Comparison of the Fatigue Strength of Fixation Techniques for Supracondylar Femur Fractures McDonald, E; Pekmezci, M; Buckley, J.M; +Kandemir, U +Biomechanical Testing Facility, UCSF/SFGH Orthopaedic Trauma, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA Departmen...