Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 26, 2021
Frequent inspections are essential for drains to maintain proper function to ensure public health and safety. Robots have been developed to aid the drain inspection process. However, existing robots designed for drain inspection require improvements ...
Journal of surgical education
Aug 26, 2021
OBJECTIVE: A national robotic surgery curriculum is still developing for general surgery residents as robotic surgery becomes increasingly accessible. One general surgery residency program utilized a Delphi process to optimize a robotic surgery curri...
Bio Systems
Aug 25, 2021
Whether we emphasize the notion of 'sign' or the notion of 'code', either way the main interest of biosemiotics and Code Biology is the same, and we argue that the idea of the lower threshold is what still unifies these two groups. Code Biology conce...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Aug 25, 2021
BACKGROUND: During percutaneous puncture procedure, breath holding is subjectively controlled by patients, and it is difficult to ensure consistent tumour position between the preoperative CT scanning phase and the intraoperative puncture phase. In a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 25, 2021
Today, computer vision algorithms are very important for different fields and applications, such as closed-circuit television security, health status monitoring, and recognizing a specific person or object and robotics. Regarding this topic, the pres...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 25, 2021
Anthropomorphic robots need to maintain effective and emotive communication with humans as automotive agents to establish and maintain effective human-robot performances and positive human experiences. Previous research has shown that the characteris...
Soft robotics
Aug 24, 2021
Medical palpation is a diagnostic technique in which physicians use the sense of touch to manipulate the soft human tissue. This can be done to enable the diagnosis of possibly life-threatening conditions, such as cancer. Palpation is still poorly un...
BMJ case reports
Aug 24, 2021
Bladder endometriosis accounts for 70%-85% cases of urinary tract endometriosis. A high index of suspicion is needed to diagnose this condition as most women have associated pelvic and menstrual complaints. The presence of cyclical haematuria along w...
Science and engineering ethics
Aug 24, 2021
Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic technologies have become nearly ubiquitous. In some ways, the developments have likely helped us, but in other ways sophisticated technologies set back our interests. Among the latter sort is what has been dub...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 24, 2021
In the field of soft robotics, pneumatic elements play an important role due to their sensitive and adaptive behavior. Nevertheless, the rapid prototyping of such actuators is still challenging since conventional 3D printers are not designed to fabri...