Robotic surgery is transforming the current surgical practice, not only by improving the
conventional surgical methods but also by introducing innovative robot-enhanced …

Background Virtual reality (VR) as surgical training tool has become a state-of-the-art
technique in training and teaching skills for minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Although …

The modeling of forces during needle insertion into soft tissue is important for accurate
surgical simulation, preoperative planning, and intelligent robotic assistance for …

A haptic interface was designed and developed for use in manipulation tasks. The
mechanism consists of a closed kinematic chain. The force feedback mechanism consists of …

The growth of medical robotics since the mid-1980s has been striking. From a few initial
efforts in stereotactic brain surgery, orthopaedics, endoscopic surgery, microsurgery, and …

Haptic perception plays a very important role in surgery. It enables the surgeon to feel
organic tissue hardness, measure tissue properties, evaluate anatomical structures, and …

As opposed to open surgery procedures, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) utilizes small skin
incisions to insert a camera and surgical instruments. MIS has numerous advantages such …

Teleoperated robot systems are able to support humans to accomplish their tasks in many
applications. However, the performance of teleoperation largely depends on motor …

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This article gives an overview of research performed in the field of haptic information
feedback during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). Literature has been consulted from 1985 …