Robotic-assisted spine surgery: history, efficacy, cost, and future trends

M D'Souza, J Gendreau, A Feng, LH Kim… - Robotic Surgery …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Robot-assisted spine surgery has recently emerged as a viable tool to enable less invasive
and higher precision surgery. The first-ever spine robot, the SpineAssist (Mazor Robotics …

Autonomy in surgical robotics

A Attanasio, B Scaglioni, E De Momi… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
This review examines the dichotomy between automatic and autonomous behaviors in
surgical robots, maps the possible levels of autonomy of these robots, and describes the …

Image-guided interventional robotics: Lost in translation?

G Fichtinger, J Troccaz, T Haidegger - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interventional robotic systems have been deployed with all existing imaging modalities in an
expansive portfolio of therapies and surgeries. Over the years, literature reviews have …

Introduction to the special section: convergence of automation technology, biomedical engineering, and health informatics toward the healthcare 4.0

Z Pang, G Yang, R Khedri… - IEEE Reviews in …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Industry 4.0 is spilling out from manufacturing to healthcare. In this article, we provide a brief
history and key enabling technologies of Industry 4.0, and its revolution in healthcare …

Robotic spine surgery: past, present, and future

DC Perfetti, S Kisinde, MP Rogers-LaVanne, AM Satin… - Spine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Study Design. Systematic review. Objective. The aim of this review is to present an overview
of robotic spine surgery (RSS) including its history, applications, limitations, and future …

The future of neuroscience: flexible and wireless implantable neural electronics

E McGlynn, V Nabaei, E Ren… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neurological diseases are a prevalent cause of global mortality and are of growing concern
when considering an ageing global population. Traditional treatments are accompanied by …

Impact of robot-assisted spine surgery on health care quality and neurosurgical economics: a systemic review

B Fiani, SA Quadri, M Farooqui, A Cathel, B Berman… - Neurosurgical …, 2020 - Springer
Whenever any new technology is introduced into the healthcare system, it should satisfy all
three pillars of the iron triangle of health care, which are quality, cost-effectiveness, and …

Position-based kinematics for 7-DoF serial manipulators with global configuration control, joint limit and singularity avoidance

C Faria, F Ferreira, W Erlhagen, S Monteiro… - Mechanism and Machine …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel analytic method to uniquely solve inverse kinematics of 7
degrees-of-freedom manipulators while avoiding joint limits and singularities. Two auxiliary …

Modular robotic platform for precision neurosurgery with a bio-inspired needle: System overview and first in-vivo deployment

R Secoli, E Matheson, M Pinzi, S Galvan, A Donder… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Over the past 10 years, minimally invasive surgery (MIS) has shown significant benefits
compared to conventional surgical techniques, with reduced trauma, shorter hospital stays …

Surgical robotics for intracerebral hemorrhage treatment: state of the art and future directions

Z Wu, D Chen, C Pan, G Zhang, S Chen, J Shi… - Annals of Biomedical …, 2023 - Springer
Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is a stroke subtype with high mortality and disability, and
there are no proven medical treatments that can improve the functional outcome of ICH …