In cooperation with the companies Möller-Wedel and IBG Technology the HI-R1000 microscope produced by Möller-Wedel was motorised completely to support the surgeon. Now the positioning can be carried out with a remote control which is fastened to one of the instruments without interrupting the work flow of the surgeon. The remote control offers different modes with which often appearing movements can be done automatically. This encloses the pivotation around the current focus point to look at objects from another point of view, movements of the objective parallel to the current image plane to have a look at objects slightly out of sight, as well as corrections of the working distance and the zoom.

The remote control communicates with an external PC using Bluetooth. The PC determines the coordinates of the target position and calculates the positions of all joints. The corresponding parameters are sent to the microscope using a serial interface.

However, the microscope can also be positioned manually. This makes sense for movements with large amplitude which have to be carried out fast but inexactly. Moreover, this offers another security aspect, because by the manual control all motor movements are interrupted immediately.