Annals of biomedical engineering
Oct 4, 2022
Laparoscopic surgery is widely used for treating intra-abdominal conditions involving the gallbladder, pancreas, liver, intestines and reproductive organs. Conventional laparoscopy instruments used in manual surgeries usually have straight shafts and...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
Oct 3, 2022
PURPOSE: Robot-assisted cardiovascular intervention has been recently developed, which enables interventionists to avoid x-ray radiation and improve their comfort. However, there are still some challenges in the robotic design, such as the inability ...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Sep 16, 2022
BACKGROUND: Traditional commercial master devices and specialied serial master devices meet insufficient workspace, low intuitiveness, low stiffness, and poor accuracy during master-slave mapping for robot-assisted flexible ureteroscopy (FURS).
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Sep 13, 2022
BACKGROUND: The method of MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) image-guided robot for prostate seed implantation has developed rapidly in recent years. During the operation, although the puncture effect guided by MRI is very good, it is difficult for con...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Aug 31, 2022
BACKGROUND: In robotic surgery, a surgeon controls a surgical robot through a master manipulator in motion scaled teleoperation environment. However, there are no clear criteria for the master's workspace.
Science robotics
Aug 31, 2022
The limited force or torque outputs of miniature magnetic actuators constrain the locomotion performances and functionalities of magnetic millimeter-scale robots. Here, we present a magnetically actuated gearbox with a maximum size of 3 millimeters f...
Science robotics
Aug 24, 2022
Although robotic micromanipulation using microtweezers has been widely explored, the current manipulation throughput hardly exceeds one operation per second. Increasing the manipulation throughput is thus a key factor for the emergence of robotized m...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Aug 21, 2022
People are becoming more and more aware of the value of design throughout a product's entire life cycle as a result of the fierce competition for industrial products that exists today. The life of a product involves its design, manufacture, sale, and...
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 19, 2022
OBJECTIVE: This paper aims to investigate a new continuum robot design and its motion implementation methods appropriate for a minimally invasive intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) evacuation.
IEEE transactions on bio-medical engineering
Aug 19, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Wireless capsule endoscopy has been well used for gastrointestinal (GI) tract diagnosis. However, it can only obtain images and cannot take samples of GI tract tissues. In this study, we designed a magnetically-actuated biopsy capsule (MAB...