{"id":6763,"date":"2011-08-29T18:48:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T23:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=6763"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:11:23","slug":"davinci-painting-robot-van-gogh-charles-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/08\/29\/davinci-painting-robot-van-gogh-charles-anderson\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Can The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Paint A Miniature Van Gogh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know&#8230; I&#8217;m a technology enthusiast. In fact, I&#8217;m often referred to as a &#8220;tech geek&#8221; by my friends &#8212; always playing around with the latest gadgets and software.<\/p>\n<p>Specific to heart valve treatment, my interest in medical technology is similarly high. Today, much of the tech-excitement is centered on transcatheter, sutureless and leaflet exchange technology. However, I&#8217;m still fascinated by the utility of robotic devices for procedures including mitral valve repair procedures. (To learn more about mitral valve repair surgery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-repair-surgery.php\">click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/da_vinci_robot_heart-valve.jpg\" width=\"270\" height=\"312\" \/><br \/>\nDa Vinci Surgical Robot<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That said, I just saw an amazing video created by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Charles-Anderson-Atlanta-Georgia.php\">Dr. Charles Anderson<\/a>, a heart surgeon and robotic specialist from Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 In this video, Dr. Anderson uses the Da Vinci Surgical Robot to paint a miniature Van Gogh&#8230; You gotta see this to believe it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GRKdQR1-BZI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, I guess if you need a robotic mitral valve repair or an impressive van Gogh look-alike&#8230; Dr. Anderson is your man.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22487,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}