Advancement of flexible robot technologies for endoluminal surgeries

J Kim, M de Mathelin, K Ikuta… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The trend of achieving minimal invasiveness in surgeries and recent technological
advances in robotics have resulted in the emergence of flexible surgical robots. Such …

A survey on actuators-driven surgical robots

HM Le, TN Do, SJ Phee - Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Robot-assisted surgeries have been integrated and leading to a paradigm shift in surgical
fields. With the emergence of Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS), especially Natural Orifice …

Advanced soft robotic system for in situ 3D bioprinting and endoscopic surgery

MT Thai, PT Phan, HA Tran, CC Nguyen… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Three‐dimensional (3D) bioprinting technology offers great potential in the
treatment of tissue and organ damage. Conventional approaches generally rely on a large …

Transendoscopic flexible parallel continuum robotic mechanism for bimanual endoscopic submucosal dissection

H Gao, X Yang, X **ao, X Zhu… - … Journal of Robotics …, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
In endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), the gastrointestinal (GI) tract warrants the
surgical instruments to navigate through a long, narrow and tortuous endoscope. This poses …

Advanced intelligent systems for surgical robotics

MT Thai, PT Phan, TT Hoang, S Wong… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Surgical robots have had clinical use since the mid‐1990s. Robot‐assisted surgeries offer
many benefits over the conventional approach including lower risk of infection and blood …

Wearable upper limb robotics for pervasive health: A review

C Ochieze, S Zare, Y Sun - Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Wearable robotics, also called exoskeletons, have been engineered for human-centered
assistance for decades. They provide assistive technologies for maintaining and improving …

Advanced user interfaces for teleoperated surgical robotic systems

CC Nguyen, S Wong, MT Thai… - Advanced Sensor …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, advances in modern technology have altered the practice of surgery from
open to minimally invasive surgery (MIS) aided by robots. Teleoperated surgical robotic …

Adaptive backlash compensation in upper limb soft wearable exoskeletons

BK Dinh, M **loyannis, L Cappello, CW Antuvan… - Robotics and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
A new frontier of assistive devices aims at designing exoskeletons based on fabric and
flexible materials for applications where kinematic transparency is the primary requirement …

Stretchable, twisted conductive microtubules for wearable computing, robotics, electronics, and healthcare

TN Do, Y Visell - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Stretchable and flexible multifunctional electronic components, including sensors and
actuators, have received increasing attention in robotics, electronics, wearable, and …

Design, fabrication, and hysteresis modeling of soft microtubule artificial muscle (SMAM) for medical applications

MT Thai, PT Phan, TT Hoang, H Low… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021‏ - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic artificial muscles (RAMs) are promising power sources for medical fields such as
surgical robotics. However, existing RAMs are challenged by scalability, material costs and …