The Millennia-Long Development of Drugs Associated with the 80-Year-Old Artificial Intelligence Story: The Therapeutic Big Bang?

A Crouzet, N Lopez, B Riss Yaw, Y Lepelletier… - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
The journey of drug discovery (DD) has evolved from ancient practices to modern
technology-driven approaches, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerging as a pivotal force in …

Drosophila Larvae-Inspired Soft Crawling Robot with Multimodal Locomotion and Versatile Applications

Q Fang, J Zhang, Y He, N Zheng, Y Wang, R Xiong… - Research, 2024 - spj.science.org
Soft crawling robots have been widely studied and applied because of their excellent
environmental adaptability and flexible movement. However, most existing soft crawling …

Design and Stiffness Control of a Variable-Length Continuum Robot for Endoscopic Surgery

J Zhang, Q Fang, L Liu, R Jin, P Xiang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Continuum robots, owing to their inherent compliance, have become essential in
endoscopic surgical procedures, such as mucosal ablation. However, the prevalent design …

Learning Hierarchical Graph-Based Policy for Goal-Reaching in Unknown Environments

Y Cui, S Ye, X Xu, H Sha, C Wang, L Lin… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Goal-reaching in unknown environments is one of the essential tasks in robot applications.
Large-scale perception and long-horizon decision-making are the keys to solving this task …

Piezoelectric Planar Parallel Microrobot With High Bandwidth and Precision for Micromanipulation

J Shen, Q Fang, X Fang, J Lou, Y Wang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Parallel micro/nano robots hold great potential in micro-manufacturing/assembly,
microsurgery, and precision engineering because of their high precision and stiffness …

Chorda Dorsalis System as a Paragon for Soft Medical Robots to Design Echocardiography Probes with a New SOM-Based Steering Control

M Sayahkarajy, H Witte, AAM Faudzi - Biomimetics, 2024 - mdpi.com
Continuum robots play the role of end effectors in various surgical robots and endoscopic
devices. While soft continuum robots (SCRs) have proven advantages such as safety and …

Hybrid Control of Soft Robotic Manipulator

A Garriga-Casanovas, F Shakib, V Ferrandy, E Franco - Actuators, 2024 - mdpi.com
Soft robotic manipulators consisting of serially stacked segments combine actuation and
structure in an integrated design. This design can be miniaturised while providing suitable …

BronchoCopilot: Towards Autonomous Robotic Bronchoscopy via Multimodal Reinforcement Learning

J Zhao, H Chen, Q Tian, J Chen, B Yang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Bronchoscopy plays a significant role in the early diagnosis and treatment of lung diseases.
This process demands physicians to maneuver the flexible endoscope for reaching distal …

Efficient Domain Adaptation for Endoscopic Visual Odometry

J Wu, Y Gu, GZ Yang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.10860, 2024 - arxiv.org
Visual odometry plays a crucial role in endoscopic imaging, yet the scarcity of realistic
images with ground truth poses poses a significant challenge. Therefore, domain adaptation …

Navigation of Tendon-driven Flexible Robotic Endoscope through Deep Reinforcement Learning

C Ng, H Gao, TA Ren, J Lai… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic endoscopes play a crucial role in diagnosing gastrointestinal disease and
performing tumor resections. While current research primarily focuses on autonomously …