Augmenting the body with artificial limbs controlled concurrently to one's natural limbs has
long appeared in science fiction, but recent technological and neuroscientific advances …

Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are a new type of wearable human auxiliary
equipment, which is currently a hot research topic in the world. SRLs have broad …

Conventional industrial robots are unable to guarantee the inherent safety when working
together with humans due to the use of rigid components and the lack of force sensation. To …

Haptic feedback is absent in flexible endoscopic surgical robots due to the size constraint of
installing sensors on the small robotic arms. Besides, inherent hysteresis caused by the …

Flexible endoscopy requires a lot of skill to manipulate both the endoscope and the
associated instruments. In most robotic flexible endoscopic systems, the endoscope and …

Purpose Supernumerary robotic limbs (SRLs) are a new type of wearable robot, which
improve the user's operating and perceive the user's environment by extra robotic limbs …

In traditional endoscopic surgery, the surgeon manipulating the endoscopic instruments is
supported by an assistant controlling the endoscope, where their coordination may be …

Robotic surgery is a promising direction to improve surgeons and assistants' daily life with
respect to conventional surgery. In this work, we propose solo laparoscopic surgery in which …

Assisting humans in collaborative tasks is a promising application for robots, however
effective assistance remains challenging. In this article, we propose a method for providing …

Contemporary robotics gives us mechatronic capabilities for augmenting human bodies with
extra limbs. However, how our motor control capabilities pose limits on such augmentation is …