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Computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for remote operating manipulator arms using move commands issued by haptic master arms; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for filtering and geometrically transforming move commands issued by haptic master arms and sensors mounted on manipulator arms and on haptic master arms; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for detecting real time movement or pressure by sensors mounted on manipulators and haptic master arms; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for setting-up and calibrating sensors and manipulator arms; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for facilitating real-time communication between computers; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for graphical user interfaces; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for simulating manipulator arm behaviour and surgical instruments interaction with tissues; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for programming procedures to change instruments, inserting instruments in the patient body and manually operating manipulating arms through sensory information; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for signalling abnormal forces applied on tissues, detecting electrical and mechanical faults and software and hardware failures and signalling collisions between manipulator arms and between the arm and a human operator; computer hardware and computer software all for use with remote controlled surgical procedures for recording in real time data from sensors, manipulator arms and haptic master arms

Medical equipment for use in remote controlled surgical procedures, namely, robotic manipulator arms equipped with sensors for detecting pressure or force, calibration, personnel safety; the above also featuring surgical tools identification actuators for surgical instruments, a movable base featuring a power cabinet, and a haptic master arm with foot switches; medical electronic equipment and surgical instruments, namely, surgical drapes, trocars, medical biopsy brushes, robotic manipulator arms equipped for performing minimal invasive surgery, endoscopes, ultrasound probes, electrocautery tools, clip appliers and clips, tack appliers and tacks, cannulae, scalpels, scalpel blades, dissectors, forceps scissors, clamps, graspers, staplers, heaters and calibrators, insufflators, suction probes, irrigation probes, needle holders and ligature carriers all for use in remote surgical procedures

Design and development of computer software used in the medical and scientific fields and used with apparatus for remote controlled surgery