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Adapting small jumping robots to compliant environments.

Journal of the Royal Society, Interface
Jumping animals launch themselves from surfaces that vary widely in compliance from grasses and shrubs to tree branches. However, studies of robotic jumpers have been largely limited to those jumping from rigid substrates. In this paper, we leverage ...

A Retrospective Study of Puncture and Drainage for Primary Brainstem Hemorrhage With the Assistance of a Surgical Robot.

The neurologist
BACKGROUND: Whether primary brainstem hemorrhage (PBH) should be treated with a conservative treatment or with surgical intervention (such as craniotomy, puncture, and drainage) is still controversial. The aim of this study was to assess the feasibil...

Effect of gait distance during robot training on walking independence after acute brain injury.

Assistive technology : the official journal of RESNA
This study aimed to determine whether the distance of gait training using a hybrid assistive limb (HAL) is related to the improvement of walking independence in patients with acute brain injury. This was an exploratory, observational study. Thirty pa...

Robotic Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (rTAMIS): Large Tubulovillous Adenoma.

The American surgeon
Many transanal platforms have recently evolved to manage rectal pathologies. Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEM) and transanal laparoscopic minimally invasive surgery (TAMIS) have been developed to address the limitations of conventional transana...

Peritoneal closure and the processus vaginalis transection method to prevent inguinal hernia after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association
OBJECTIVES: Postoperative inguinal hernia (IH) is one of the most common complications of radical prostatectomy (RP) including robot-assisted RP (RARP). However, a procedure to prevent IH after RARP has not been established. We investigated the impac...

Prospective cohort study on mesh shrinkage measured with MRI after robot-assisted minimal invasive retrorectus ventral hernia repair using an iron-oxide-loaded polyvinylidene fluoride mesh.

Surgical endoscopy
BACKGROUND: Mesh-reinforced ventral hernia repair is considered the gold standard treatment for all but the smallest of hernias. Human data on mesh shrinkage in the retrorectus mesh position is lacking. A prospective observational cohort study was pe...

A Passively Conforming Soft Robotic Gripper with Three-Dimensional Negative Bending Stiffness Fingers.

Soft robotics
Robot grippers that lack physical compliance have a difficult time dealing with uncertainty, such as fragile objects that may not have well-defined shapes. Existing soft robotic grippers require a large empty workspace for their actuated fingers to c...

Implementation of an Environmental Cleaning Protocol in Hospital Critical Areas Using a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

International journal of environmental research and public health
Improving the cleaning and disinfection of high-touch surfaces is one of the core components of reducing healthcare-associated infections. The effectiveness of an enhanced protocol applying UV-C irradiation for terminal room disinfection between two ...

Robot-related fatalities at work in the United States, 1992-2017.

American journal of industrial medicine
BACKGROUND: Industrial robots became more commonplace in the US workplace during the mid- to latter part of the twentieth century. Recent scientific advances have led to the development of new types of robots, resulting in rapidly changing work envir...

Robot-assisted resection of multiple lung nodules through combination of intercostal incisions and a subxiphoid incision as a utility port.

The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
INTRODUCTION: Robotic-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS) via subxiphoid incision may be superior in resection of multiple lung nodules.