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

Minimally invasive surgery has been one of the most significant evolutions in medicine. In
this approach, the surgeon inserts specially-designed instruments through a small incision …

Cardiac diseases are recognized as the leading cause of mortality, hospitalization, and
medical prescription globally. The gold standard for the treatment of coronary artery stenosis …

Optical biosensors integrated into catheter systems enable highly sensitive, multiplexed, and
real-time detection of biochemical analytes and physiological parameters within the body …

During cardiac surgery, the excessive or insufficient contact force between the tip of catheter
and heart tissue will lead to the cardiac penetration or noneffective ablative lesion. Usually …

Force sensing is important for surgical robotics in order to realize surgical palpation and
ensure surgical safety. In this article, we design a compact triaxial force sensor based on …

Highly sensitive flexible three-dimensional (3D) force tactile sensors with synergistic normal
and tangential force perception are urgently required for emerging electronic skin (e-skin) …

Sensing the interaction force in robot-assisted manipulation draws lots of attentions in
related research fields. In order to protect the manipulation objects and to build the real-time …

Vascular interventional surgery (VIS) robots are capable of performing various operations
such as drug delivery, coil filling, balloon stent expansion, percutaneous catheter ablation …

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides both anatomical imaging with excellent soft
tissue contrast and functional MRI imaging (fMRI) of physiological parameters. The last two …