Soft Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery and Interventions: Advances and Outlook

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 materials available that can be used to create highly dexterous robots with adaptability characteristics fa...

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Published in:	Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 110; no. 7; pp. 871 - 892
Main Authors:	Kwok, Ka-Wai, Wurdemann, Helge, Arezzo, Alberto, Menciassi, Arianna, Althoefer, Kaspar
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.07.2022 The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects:	Endoscopes Endoscopy Flexible structures Instruments Machine learning Medical robotics Minimally invasive surgery modeling Robot sensing systems robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) Robotic surgery Sensors Soft robotics soft sensors tunable stiffness
ISSN:	0018-9219, 1558-2256
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