Conventional medical instruments are not capable of passing through tortuous anatomy as
required for natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery due to their rigid shaft designs …

A twisting problem is identified from the central located flexible backbone continuum robot.
Regarding this problem, a design solution is required to mechanically minimize this twisting …

To create fully-soft robots, fully-soft actuators are needed. Currently, soft rotary actuator
topologies described in the literature exhibit low rotational speeds, which limit their …

Flexible probes that are safely deployed to hard-to-reach targets while avoiding critical
structures are strategic in several high-impact application fields, including the biomedical …

Rigid robots have found wide-ranging applications in manufacturing automation, owing to
their high loading capacity, high speed, and high precision. Nevertheless, these robots …

Continuum arms are becoming more popular for use in inspection and repair of hard to
reach environments, typically in-situ. These applications characteristically have less space …

Soft pneumatic actuators are commonly used in robotics for creating single-axis
compression, extension, or bending motions. If these actuators are composed of compliant …

The use of snake-like robots for surgery is a popular choice for intra-luminal procedures. In
practice, the requirements for strength, flexibility and accuracy are difficult to be satisfied …

We introduce a novel input device for the teleoperation of extensible continuum robots. As
opposed to previous works limited by kinematically dissimilar master devices or restricted …

Robotic arms are extensively employed across various disciplines, within both structured
and unstructured workspaces, as well as across numerous applications. These components …