Advanced healthcare materials
Jul 27, 2023
Small-scale robots capable of remote active steering and navigation offer great potential for biomedical applications. However, the current design and manufacturing procedure impede their miniaturization and integration of various diagnostic and ther...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Jul 24, 2023
PURPOSE: During minimally invasive surgery, surgeons maneuver tools through complex anatomies, which is difficult without the ability to control the position of the tools inside the body. A potential solution for a substantial portion of these proced...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Jul 19, 2023
BACKGROUND: Transition from the utilisation of traditional instruments to new robotic methodologies in surgical operations occurs rapidly. Although the implementation of these methodologies to classical surgery operations is advantageous due to incre...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 6, 2023
This paper proposes a method for accurate 3D posture sensing of the soft actuators, which could be applied to the closed-loop control of soft robots. To achieve this, the method employs an array of miniaturized sponge resistive materials along the so...
Annals of biomedical engineering
Jun 27, 2023
As a recently popular large language model, Chatbot Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) is highly valued in the field of clinical medicine. Due to the limited understanding of the potential impact of ChatGPT on the manufacturing side of clin...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Jun 19, 2023
OBJECTIVE: Body machine interfaces (BoMIs) enable individuals with paralysis to achieve a greater measure of independence in daily activities by assisting the control of devices such as robotic manipulators. The first BoMIs relied on Principal Compon...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jun 19, 2023
Particle-jamming soft robots are characterised by high flexibility in motion and high stiffness when executing a task. Regarding particle jamming of soft robots, the discrete element method (DEM)-finite element method (FEM) coupling was used for mode...
Computer methods in biomechanics and biomedical engineering
Jun 14, 2023
Physiotherapy is a treatment that may be required permanently by many patients. As a result, a robot that can execute physiotherapy exercises for the legs like a professional therapist with adequate performance and acceptable safety may be efficient ...
Science advances
Jun 7, 2023
Implanted electronic sensors, compared with conventional medical imaging, allow monitoring of advanced physiological properties of soft biological tissues continuously, such as adhesion, pH, viscoelasticity, and biomarkers for disease diagnosis. Howe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 31, 2023
Effective force modulation during tissue manipulation is important for ensuring safe, robot-assisted, minimally invasive surgery (RMIS). Strict requirements for in vivo applications have led to prior sensor designs that trade off ease of manufacture ...