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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Summary: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 far beyond that which can be achieved with rigid component devices. The ability, inherent in soft robots, to compliantly adapt to the environment, has significantly sparked interest from the surgical robotics community. This article provides an in-depth overview of recent progress and outlines the remaining challenges in the development of soft robotics for minimally invasive surgery.
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ISSN:0018-9219
1558-2256
DOI:10.1109/JPROC.2022.3167931