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 …

This article presents an overview of the current state of research and application of haptic
(primarily kinesthetic) feedback and force-based teleoperation in the context of surgical …

Minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, benefits
patients in terms of improved postoperative outcomes and short recovery time. The …

Shared control, which permits a human operator and an autonomous controller to share the
control of a telerobotic system, can reduce the operator's workload and/or improve …

This article focuses on ethical issues raised by increasing levels of autonomy for surgical
robots. These ethical issues are explored mainly by reference to state-ofart case studies and …

Robotic assistance allows surgeons to perform dexterous and tremor-free procedures, but
robotic aid is still underrepresented in procedures with constrained workspaces, such as …

Indirect simultaneous positioning (ISP), where internal tissue points are placed at desired
locations indirectly through the manipulation of boundary points, is a type of subtask …

With robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS), patients and surgeons benefit
from a reduced incision size and dexterous instruments. However, current robotic surgery …

Intraoperative segmentation and tracking of minimally invasive instruments is a prerequisite
for computer-and robotic-assisted surgery. Since additional hardware like tracking systems …

Healthcare in general, and surgery/interventional care in particular, is evolving through rapid
advances in technology and increasing complexity of care, with the goal of maximizing the …