Penelope: the World's First Autonomous, Vision-Guided, Intelligent, Robotic Surgical Instrument Server August 9, 2008

Penelope is a robotic scrub assistant with speech recognition, machine vision, and robotic arm path planning and targeting, developed by Robotic Surgical Tech, Inc., a Columbia University spin-out enterprise. Penelope is comprised of four major hardware and software components: the robotic arm, the instrument platform, the system stand, and the system control software.