Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

Artificial haptics has the potential to revolutionize the way we integrate physical and virtual
technologies in our daily lives, with implications for teleoperation, motor skill acquisition …

Hands-on training is an indispensable part of surgical practice. As the tools used in the
operating room become more intricate, the demand for efficient training methods increases …

Teleoperated robotic systems have introduced more intuitive control for minimally invasive
surgery, but the optimal method for training remains unknown. Recent motor learning …

Nowadays, robot assisted surgery training relies more and more on computer-based
simulation. However, the application of such training technologies is still limited to the early …

Robotics teleoperation enables human operators to control the movements of distally
located robots. The development of new wearable interfaces as alternatives to hand-held …

In this paper, we investigate the gras** of rigid objects in a unilateral robot-assisted
minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS). We define a human-centered transparency that …

In laparoscopic surgery, surgeons should develop several manual laparoscopic skills before
carrying out real operative procedures using a low-cost box trainer. The Fundamentals of …

In this paper we investigate the influence of the location of vibrotactile stimulation in
triggering the response made using two handheld joysticks. In particular, we compare …

In this letter, we propose a training approach combining hand-over-hand and trial and error
training approaches and we evaluate its effectiveness for both robotic and standard …