BACKGROUND: This multicenter, retrospective review documents the initial experience using the Flex system for transoral surgery in 2 United States academic centers.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: The Hominis surgical system is a novel robot-assisted system, designed specifically for robotic vaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (RvNOTES). We presented our experience of the first 30 RvNOTES hysterectomies ass...
High-precision delivery of microrobots at the whole-body scale is of considerable importance for efforts toward targeted therapeutic intervention. However, vision-based control of microrobots, to deep and narrow spaces inside the body, remains a chal...
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the safety and feasibility of robot-assisted transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (R-vNOTES) hysterectomy when compared with traditional vNOTES (T-vNOTES) hysterectomy.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To describe the surgical techniques and short-term outcomes for 33 cases of robot-assisted transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (RvNOTES) to treat endometriosis.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To demonstrate stepwise techniques for the successful utilization of the Robotic-assisted transvaginal Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopy Surgery (NOTES) technique for safely surgically managing deeply infiltrated endometriosis (...
PURPOSE: Natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that reduces patient trauma, infection probability, and rehabilitation time. This paper reviews the progress made in the control-actuation rob...
Surgical interventions should ideally treat an existing disease curatively and achieve this with a low complication rate and minimal trauma. In this sense, laparoscopic cholecystectomy has become established as the recognized standard for the treatme...
Since its inception, endoscopy has evolved from a solely diagnostic procedure to an expanding therapeutic field within gastroenterology. The incorporation of robotics in gastroenterology initially addressed shortcomings of flexible endoscopes in natu...