Recently, flexible robotic systems are developed to enhance minimally invasive
interventions on internal organs located in confined areas of human body. These surgical …

The trend of achieving minimal invasiveness in surgeries and recent technological
advances in robotics have resulted in the emergence of flexible surgical robots. Such …

Continuum robots are not constructed with discrete joints but, instead, change shape and
position their tip by flexing along their entire length. Their narrow curvilinear shape makes …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

Conformable robotic systems are attractive for applications in which they may actuate
structures with large surface areas, provide forces through wearable garments, or enable …

In endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), the gastrointestinal (GI) tract warrants the
surgical instruments to navigate through a long, narrow and tortuous endoscope. This poses …

Background Despite its high lesion accessibility and versatility, endoscopic platforms have
suffered from designing flexible manipulators with high payload capability sufficient to …

Although substantial advancements have been achieved in robot-assisted surgery, the
blueprint to existing snake robotics predominantly focuses on the preliminary structural …

Purpose Snake-inspired robots are of great significance in many fields because of their
great adaptability to the environment. This paper aims to systematically illustrate the …

Keyhole surgery requires highly dexterous snake-like robotic arms capable of bending
around anatomical obstacles to access clinical targets that diverge from the direct port-of …