This paper reports the development of a full-scale instrumented model of the human ear that permits quantitative evaluation
of the utility of a microsurgical assistant robot in the surgical procedure of stapedotomy.
Currently at the University of Grenoble
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under grants IIS9801684 and EEC9731478, the Johns
Hopkins University, and the National Institutes of Health under Training Grant 5-T32-HL07712.