Background Telemedicine is influencing surgical training, allows mentoring, proctoring and
teleconferencing, and is increasingly being applied to carry out remote surgical procedures …

Many patients and surgeons today favor the least invasive access to an operative site. The
adoption of robot-assisted cardiac surgery has been slow, but now has come to fruition. The …

OBJECTIVES: Direct haptic (force or tactile) feedback is not yet available in commercial
robotic surgical systems. Previous work by our group and others suggests that haptic …

Robotic surgical systems have greatly contributed to the advancement of minimally invasive
endoscopic surgery. However, current robotic systems do not provide tactile or haptic …

Background European surgeons were the first worldwide to use robotic techniques in
cardiac surgery and major steps in procedure development were taken in Europe. After a …

Background Colorectal cancer is the fourth leading cause of death in the world. Minimally
invasive surgery has been demonstrated to have the same oncological results as open …

Despite many successes with teleoperated robotic surgical systems, some surgeons feel
that the lack of haptic (force or tactile) feedback is detrimental in applications requiring fine …

Compared with traditional open surgery, minimally invasive surgical procedures reduce
patient trauma and recovery time, but the dexterity of the surgeon in laparoscopic surgery is …

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility of using a voice-controlled robot Automated
Endoscopic System for Optimal Positioning (AESOP) for holding and maneuvering the …

Objectives To explore the feasibility of performing endo‐robotic neck surgery in a porcine
model and to compare the results of robotically enhanced endoscopic surgery with those …