Current surgical devices are mostly rigid and are made of stiff materials, even though their
predominant use is on soft and wet tissues. With the emergence of compliant mechanisms …

The machining of hard tissues, such as cortical bone and cancellous bone in human bodies
and enamel and dentin in teeth, is an essential process in orthopaedics, neurosurgery and …

Cable-driven continuum robots with hyper-redundant deformable backbones show great
promise in applications, such as inspection in unstructured environments, where traditional …

Compliant continuum robots (CCRs) have slender and elastic bodies. Compared with a
traditional serial robot, they have more degrees of freedom and can deform their flexible …

Cable-driven continuum robots exhibit accessing and manipulation capabilities in
constrained and cluttered environments that are unachievable for traditional robots …

Since the da Vinci surgical system was approved by the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) in 2000, the development and deployment of various robot-assisted minimally …

Objective: This paper aims to investigate a new continuum robot design and its motion
implementation methods appropriate for a minimally invasive intracerebral hemorrhage …

This work presents a novel continuum overtube that consists of a notched tendon-driven 2-
DOF continuum joint and a distal deployable structure driven by a flexible screw rod. A …

Tendon-driven continuum robots are widely used in different engineering disciplines due to
their simple structure and high flexibility. The typical structure of a tendon-driven continuum …

Spinal fixation with rigid pedicle screws have shown to be an effective treatment for many
patients. However, this surgical option has been proved to be insufficient and will eventually …