Continuum robots provide inherent structural compliance with high dexterity to access the
surgical target sites along tortuous anatomical paths under constrained environments and …

The trend of achieving minimal invasiveness in surgeries and recent technological
advances in robotics have resulted in the emergence of flexible surgical robots. Such …

Continuum robots are not constructed with discrete joints but, instead, change shape and
position their tip by flexing along their entire length. Their narrow curvilinear shape makes …

Surgical navigation technology provides minimally invasive surgery (MIS) with the relative
pose relationships amongst medical images, surgical instruments, and lesions. On the other …

The soft robot manipulator is attracting attention in the surgical fields with its intrinsic
softness, lightness in its weight, and safety toward the human organ. However, it cannot be …

This article presents a novel force sensor to detect the distal force of tendon-sheath
mechanisms (TSMs) in flexible endoscopic surgical robots. We propose to measure the …

Endovascular and endoscopic surgical procedures require micro-scale and meso-scale
continuum robotic tools to navigate complex anatomical structures. In numerous studies …

In conventional core decompression of osteonecrosis, surgeons cannot successfully reach
the whole area of the femoral head due to rigidity of the instruments currently used. To …

The field of continuum robotics is rapidly developing. The development of new kinematic
structures, locomotion principles and control strategies is driving the development of new …

Dexterous continuum manipulators (DCMs) can largely increase the reachable region and
steerability for minimally and less invasive surgery. Many such procedures require the DCM …