Robot-assisted and computer-integrated surgery provides innovative, minimally invasive
solutions to heal complex injuries and diseases. The dominant portion of these surgical …

Robotic-assisted surgery is now well established in clinical practice and has become the
gold-standard clinical treatment option for several clinical indications. The field of robotic …

In this letter, we describe a novel framework for planning and executing semi-autonomous
tissue retraction in minimally invasive robotic surgery. The approach is aimed at removing …

Minimally invasive surgery, including laparoscopic and thoracoscopic procedures, benefits
patients in terms of improved postoperative outcomes and short recovery time. The …

Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS) has reshaped the standard clinical
practice during the past two decades. Many believe that the next big step in the …

Robotic assistance is becoming a standard in Minimally Invasive Surgery. Despite its clinical
benefits and technical potential, surgeons still have to perform manu-ally a number of …

Over the last decade, the use of robots in production and daily life has increased. With
increasingly complex tasks and interaction in different environments including humans …

Robotics is one of the major megatrends unfolding this decade. Robots are capable of doing
more and more as becoming detached from the assembly lines, and service robots are …

Agile maneuvers are essential for robot-enabled complex tasks such as surgical
procedures. Prior explorations on surgery autonomy are limited to feasibility study of …

The ability to recover tissue deformation from visual features is fundamental for many robotic
surgery applications. This has been a long-standing research topic in computer vision …