Automated Cranial Surgery

Craniobot

Objective Biotechnology’s Craniobot automates microsurgical removal of the rodent skull for neuro-imaging experiments:

  • Automated contact based skull surface profiling

  • Customized craniotomy path programming

  • Rapid, CNC-guided bone removal

  • Iterative, user-directed craniotomy execution

Craniobot in action

Automated circular craniotomy

Automated profiling of skull surface

Publications:

  1. M. L. Rynes, L. Ghanbari, D. Sousa Schulman, S. Linn, M. Laroque, J. Dominguez, Z. S. Navabi, P. Sherman & S. B. Kodandaramaiah, ‘Assembly and operation of an open-source, computer numerical controlled (CNC) robot for performing cranial microsurgical procedures’, Nature Protocols, 2020

  2. L. Ghanbari*, M. L. Rynes*, J. Hu, D. Sousa Schulman, G. W. Johnson, M. Laroque, G. M. Shull, S. B. Kodandaramaiah, ‘Craniobot: A computer numerical controlled robot for cranial microsurgeries’, Scientific Reports, 2019 *Equal Contribution