ISA transactions
Jul 26, 2021
In this paper, cooperative robotic manipulators under uncertain base coordinate are investigated. The coordinate uncertainties result in biases of cooperative robotic dynamics, which involve horizontal and vertical translational errors in the task sp...
Minerva urology and nephrology
Jul 26, 2021
INTRODUCTION: Robotic technologies are being increasingly implemented in healthcare, including urology, and holding promises for improving medicine worldwide. However, these new approaches raise ethical concerns for professionals, patients, researche...
Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
Jul 26, 2021
BACKGROUND: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a critical medical condition that causes numerous impairments leading to accompanying disability. Robotic-assisted gait training (RAGT) offers many advantages, including the capability to increase the intensity...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 26, 2021
Social robots are increasingly penetrating our daily lives. They are used in various domains, such as healthcare, education, business, industry, and culture. However, introducing this technology for use in conventional environments is not trivial. Fo...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 26, 2021
Inspired by wide and elongated fins of aquatic species, robotic undulatory propulsors are developed to achieve advanced maneuverability. Through biological observation, undulatory fins are typically comprised of more than 100 fin rays to propagate co...
World journal of surgery
Jul 24, 2021
BACKGROUND: The study aims to assess the safety and feasibility of the robotic dual-console during a robotic distal pancreatectomy METHODS: The data of the consecutive patients submitted to RDP from 2012 to 2019 at the Verona University were retrieve...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 24, 2021
The gripper is the far end of a robotic arm. It is responsible for the contacts between the robot itself and all the items present in a work space, or even in a social space. Therefore, to provide grippers with intelligent behaviors is fundamental, e...
Soft robotics
Jul 23, 2021
A compliant three-dimensional (3D)-printed soft gripper is designed based on the bioinspired spiral spring in this study. The soft gripper is then 3D-printed using a suitable thermoplastic filament material to deliver the desired performance. The sen...
Urologic oncology
Jul 22, 2021
BACKGROUND: Radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection is the recommended treatment in non-metastatic muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). In randomised trials, robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) showed non-inferior short-term oncol...
Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society
Jul 22, 2021
Learning continuously during all model lifetime is fundamental to deploy machine learning solutions robust to drifts in the data distribution. Advances in Continual Learning (CL) with recurrent neural networks could pave the way to a large number of ...