Robotic surgery is transforming the current surgical practice, not only by improving the
conventional surgical methods but also by introducing innovative robot-enhanced …

The birth of robots in surgery and the idea of telepresence arose from necessity. One of the
factors that drove these innovations was the need to provide surgical services to soldiers in …

Methods and systems are described for controlling move ment of a continuum robot that
includes a plurality of independently controlled segments along the length of the continuum …

Surgical robots have been widely adopted with over 4000 robots being used in practice
daily. However, these are telerobots that are fully controlled by skilled human surgeons …

Microsurgery of the retina would be dramatically improved by instruments that offer supra-
human precision. Here, we report the results of a first-in-human study of remotely controlled …

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for a mini mally invasive surgical system is
disclosed. The method includes capturing and displaying camera images of a sur gical site …

An endoscope captures images of a Surgical site for display in a viewing area of a monitor.
When a tool is outside the viewing area, a GUI indicates the position of the tool by …

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that
engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that …

Emerging paradigms furthering the reach of medical technology into human anatomy
present unique modeling, control, and sensing problems. This review provides a brief history …

Telerobotic, telesurgical, and/or surgical robotic devices, systems, and methods employ
surgical robotic linkages that may have more degrees of freedom than an associated …