Ingestible electronic systems that are capable of embedded sensing, particularly within the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract and its accessory organs, have the potential to screen for diseases …

The choice of actuators dictates how an implantable biomedical device moves. Specifically,
the concept of implantable robots consists of the three pillars: actuators, sensors, and …

Abstract The da Vinci Surgical System is a platform for robot-assisted minimally invasive
surgery. This chapter provides an overview of the design of the da Vinci System, as well as …

Swallowable capsule robots which travel in body cavities to implement drug delivery,
minimally invasive surgery, and diagnosis have provided great potential for medical …

Since the introduction of Wireless Capsule Endoscopy (WCE) researchers have started
exploring the design space of Medical Capsule Robots (MCRs): embedded micro-systems …

Technologies from open source projects have seen widespread adoption in robotics in
recent years. The rapid pace of progress in robotics is in part fueled by open source projects …

This paper proposes a modular capsule robot. It can move actively. The main robot is
responsible for collecting images to determine the location of the lesion, and the auxiliary …

The field of insertable laparoscopic robotic camera is gaining increasing attentions from
researchers, surgeons, and also patients. Although many insertable laparoscope prototypes …

The Behavior-Interaction-Priority (BIP) framework, rooted in rigorous semantics, allows the
construction of systems that are correct-by-design. BIP has been effectively used for the …

Seventy cases of computed tomography (CT) data were selected from The Cancer Imaging
Archive to aid in the design of a magnetically-guided capsule endoscope platform …