Objective: This paper describes the current level of development of robots for surgery.
Material and Methods: This paper is based on a literature search in Pubmed, IEEExplore …

Endoscopic surgery routinely produces video data. Automated understanding of these data
has applications both online (visual servoing for telemanipulation) and offline (procedure …

Objective: This report describes the design, development, and testing of a novel compact
surgical assistant robot to control the orientation and insertion depth of a laparoscopic …

This report describes continuing development of a novel compact surgical assistant robot to
control the orientation and insertion depth of a laparoscopic endoscope during abdomenal …

Primary Examiner* McDieunel Marc (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm* Marsh Fischmann &
Breyfogle, LLP; Kent A. Lembke (57) ABSTRACT A system for externally actuating an …

Purpose Robot-assisted system for minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has been attracting
more and more attentions. Compared with a traditional MIS, the robot-assisted system for …

Background During endoscopic surgical procedures, surgeons must manipulate an
endoscope inside the body cavity to observe a surgical area while estimating the distance …

A command and control interface for intraoperative endoscope positioning must be intuitive,
simple, intrinsically safe and reliable. Voice commands are widely used in commercial and …

One of the greatest difficulties in endoscopic surgery is the limited field-of-view (FOV) of
endoscopes. During endoscopic manipulation in body cavities to expand the FOV, there is …

Laparoscopic robot is used to grasp endoscope to output image of focal area for surgeons in
minimally invasive surgery (MIS), so it is necessary to set relative position between …