Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

Soft continuum robots have been accepted as a promising category of biomedical robots,
accredited to the robots' inherent compliance that makes them safely interact with their …

Since the emergence of soft robotics around two decades ago, research interest in the field
has escalated at a pace. It is fuelled by the industry's appreciation of the wide range of soft …

Cardiac electrophysiology is an effective treatment for atrial fibrillation, in which a long,
steerable catheter is inserted into the heart chamber to conduct radio frequency ablation …

Vascular interventional doctors are exposed to radiation hazards during surgery and endure
high work intensity. Remote vascular interventional surgery robotics is a hot research field …

The complex, deformable, and dynamic cardiovascular system makes precise control of
flexible medical instruments a challenging task. An innovative robot-assisted catheterization …

Piezo-actuated stages are widely used in nanopositioning applications. However, they not
only have inherent static hysteresis characteristics but also have dynamic rate-dependent …

Soft robots show compliance and have infinite degrees of freedom. Thanks to these
properties, such robots can be leveraged for surgery, rehabilitation, biomimetics …

Robotic catheters enable precise steering of their distal tip while inside the body's blood
vessels, and with this ability comes the need for control systems that fit into the clinical …

Cardiovascular diseases, driven by pollution and unhealthy lifestyle factors, are commonly
treated with cardiac catheterization. However, this exposes medical staff to harmful X-ray …