Asian journal of endoscopic surgery
May 30, 2023
The hinotori Surgical Robot System obtained pharmaceutical approval for use in colorectal cancer surgery in October 2022 in Japan, and its advantages, including its operating arm with eight axes, adjustable arm base, and flexible 3D viewer, are expec...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 30, 2023
Legged robots can travel through complex scenes via dynamic foothold adaptation. However, it remains a challenging task to efficiently utilize the dynamics of robots in cluttered environments and to achieve efficient navigation. We present a novel hi...
Nanoscale horizons
May 30, 2023
Integrating rationally designed DNA molecular walkers and DNA origami platforms is a promising route towards advanced nano-robotics of diverse functions. Unleashing the full potential in this direction requires DNA walker-origami systems beyond the p...
Journal of robotic surgery
May 29, 2023
Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with previous holmium laser enucleation of the prostate is challenging, and few studies have analyzed its perioperative, functional, and oncological outcomes. Here we retrospectively evaluated 298 robot-assisted r...
International journal of computer assisted radiology and surgery
May 29, 2023
PURPOSE: Mutual acceptance is required for any human-to-human interaction. Therefore, one would assume that this also holds for robot-patient interactions. However, the medical robotic imaging field lacks research in the area of acceptance. This work...
Langenbeck's archives of surgery
May 29, 2023
PURPOSE: In the era of minimal-invasive surgery, the introduction of robotic liver surgery (RS) was accompanied by concerns about the increased financial expenses of the robotic technique in comparison to the established laparoscopic (LS) and convent...
Annals of surgical oncology
May 28, 2023
BACKGROUND: Although transoral thyroidectomy has become popular in thyroid surgery, transoral robotic thyroidectomy (TORT) has only been successfully applied in a very small number of medical centers worldwide. In this video, we show a three-port TOR...
Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)
May 28, 2023
Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEAs) are widely exploited for actuating soft machines and granting soft robots with capability to operate in both underwater and on-land environments is important to make them adapt to more complex situations. Here, a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 28, 2023
Coal production often involves a substantial presence of gangue and foreign matter, which not only impacts the thermal properties of coal and but also leads to damage to transportation equipment. Selection robots for gangue removal have garnered atte...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 27, 2023
Allocentric semantic 3D maps are highly useful for a variety of human-machine interaction related tasks since egocentric viewpoints can be derived by the machine for the human partner. Class labels and map interpretations, however, may differ or coul...