In 1985, Victor Scheinman developed the Programmable Universal Machine for Assembly
200, the first robot used in human surgery, to biopsy brain lesions. 1 In 2004, Mazor …

This study undertakes a Scientometric analysis of bone-cutting tools, investigating a corpus
of 735 papers from the Scopus database between 1941 and 2023. It employs bibliometric …

Efficient monitoring of bone milling conditions in orthopedic and neurosurgical surgery can
prevent tissue, bone, and tool damage, and reduce surgery time. Current researches are …

Oscillating bone sawing is a crucial procedure in orthopedic surgery, but excess sawing
forces are often detrimental to implant fixation and postoperative patient recovery. Therefore …

Background Due to the metal elasticity of intramedullary nails (IMs) and irregularities of the
long bone marrow cavity and other reasons, one of the greatest challenges for surgeons is …

During bent bone grinding, the robot often needs to adjust its grinding depth and angle in
real time to ensure surgical quality. Optical-or vision-based navigation methods are no …

Purpose Planning for bone tumor resection surgery is a technically demanding and time-
consuming task, reliant on manual positioning of planar cuts in a virtual space. More …

Purpose Bone tumours must be surgically excised in one piece with a margin of healthy
tissue. The unique nature of each bone tumour case is well suited to the use of patient …

Tracking is a crucial need to control an endoscopic surgical tool accurately. Unfortunately,
widely used solutions based on optical trackers cannot work in this case because the line-of …

During infancy the bones of the cranial vault are separated by soft fibrous tissue called
sutures. These sutures allow the bones of the cranial vault to keep growing throughout …