Background The origins of telemedicine date back to the early 1970s, and combined with
the concept of minimally invasive surgery, the idea of surgical robotics was born in the late …

Advances in communication technologies have paved the way for telemedicine to transform
the delivery of medical care throughout the world. Coinciding developments in minimally …

Teleoperated robots are playing an increasingly important role in military actions and
medical services. In the future, remotely operated surgical robots will likely be used in more …

Abstract Background The Trauma Pod (TP) vision is to develop a rapidly deployable robotic
system to perform critical acute stabilization and/or surgical procedures, autonomously or in …

In just over a decade, robotic surgery has penetrated almost every surgical subspecialty and
has even replaced some of the most commonly performed open oncologic procedures. The …

In the same way Internet standards have connected heterogeneous computing systems, we
predict robot communication standards will speed research and development of …

Despite the great diversity of teleoperator designs and applications, their underlying control
systems have many similarities. These similarities can be exploited to enable inter …

For decades surgery and robotics were progressing along two parallel paths. In surgery,
minimally invasivesurgery (MIS) revolutionized the way a significant number of surgical …

Purpose–This paper aims to provide an insight into recent advancements and developments
of robotics for Natural Orifice Transluminal Surgery (NOTES) procedures …

For decades surgery and robotics were progressing along two parallel paths. In surgery,
minimally invasivesurgery (MIS) revolutionized the way a significant number of surgical …