Surgical navigation technology provides minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with the relative
pose relationships amongst medical images, surgical instruments, and lesions. On the other …

Robot-assisted technologies are being investigated to overcome the limitations of the
current solutions for transoral surgeries, which suffer from constrained insertion ports …

To possess sufficient compliance while keeping an acceptable stiffness level for
manipulation with precision, transoral robotic surgery (TORS) demands a flexible robotic …

Magnetic tracking technology is emerging to provide an occlusion-free tracking scheme for
the estimation of full pose (position and orientation) of various instruments. This brings …

Wire-driven flexible robots are efficient devices for minimally invasive surgery, since they
can work well in complex and confined environments. However, the real-time positional and …

Robot-assisted single port access surgery (SPAS) brings significant benefits to the patients.
However, it is challenging due to the limited incision size and requirements in precision …

The wire-driven flexible robot with multiple bending sections is an efficient approach for the
minimally invasive surgery and diagnosis. It can function properly in the complicated and …

Wire-driven flexible robots are efficient devices for minimally invasive surgery, since they
can work well in complex and confined environments. However, the real-time position and …

Multirobot comanipulation shows great potential in surpassing the limitations of single-robot
manipulation in complicated tasks such as robotic surgeries. However, a dynamic multirobot …

Continuum manipulators with flexibility and compliant characteristics have attracted the
attention of more and more researchers due to its wide application prospect. This paper …