Recently, flexible robotic systems are developed to enhance minimally invasive
interventions on internal organs located in confined areas of human body. These surgical …

Teleoperation provides a promising way for human–robot collaboration in the unknown or
unstructured environments to perform a cooperative task. It enables humans to complete a …

Flexible ureteroscopy (FURS) has been developed and has become a preferred routine
procedure for both diagnosis and treatment of kidney stones and other renal diseases inside …

A flexible endoscopic robot is designed to solve the problem that it is difficult for auxiliary
doctors to maintain a stable visual field in traditional endoscopic surgery. Based on …

Adding redundant passive joints to a robotic arm is an effective way to make the robot
overcome the inherent incision constraint of minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, due …

Use of robotic infrastructures can significantly increase with remote access. This would open
up the possibility to use costly equipment without the need to buy them, or to simply access …

Cancer represents a major threat to human health. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
provides superior performance to other imaging-based examination methods in the …

Existing minimally invasive surgical (MIS) robots are generally large, complex and
expensive, which greatly increases the operation cost and limits the applications of MIS …

Currently and as a future trend, many robotic systems are being adapted to allow medical
procedures such as surgeries, diagnostics, and monitoring to be conducted remotely. The …