Introduction: Conventional manual laparoscopic instruments for minimally invasive surgery
have limited dexterity within the patient, making procedures challenging. Surgical robotic …

The needle-sized surgical tools used in arthroscopy, otolaryngology, and other surgical
fields could become even more valuable to surgeons if endowed with the ability to navigate …

This paper presents a miniature wrist that can be integrated into needle-sized surgical
instruments. The wrist consists of a nitinol tube with asymmetric cutouts that is actuated by a …

The surgical paradigm of minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been a key driver to the
adoption of robotic surgical assistance. Progress in the last three decades has led to a …

According to an aspect, a device may include a first member, a second member, and a wrist
mechanism disposed between the first member and the second member. The wrist …

It has been frequently argued that the addition of haptic sensing to tele-operated surgical
robots would benefit surgeon performance. Conventional haptic sensing technologies are …

Laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT) may generate precise ablative lesions under real-
time magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the treatment of epilepsy and brain tumors. The …

Concurrent engineering and integrated design have been a major issue over the past two
decades especially considering design for X stakes. This paper describes a new proposal of …

Background Manual laparoscopic surgery requires extensive training and familiarization. It
has been suggested that motion inversion caused by the 'fulcrum effect'is key to motor …

In this paper, we propose a novel type of soft robot for sit to stand (STS) training, which is
made with soft bellow actuators. Analysis with five healthy human subjects revealed that …