State of the art and future opportunities in MRI-guided robot-assisted surgery and interventions

H Su, KW Kwok, K Cleary, I Iordachita… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can provide high-quality 3-D visualization of target
anatomy, surrounding tissue, and instrumentation, but there are significant challenges in …

A data‐driven review of soft robotics

B Jumet, MD Bell, V Sanchez… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade of soft robotics has delivered impactful and promising contributions to
society and has seen exponentially increasing interest from scientists and engineers. This …

Robotics utilization for healthcare digitization in global COVID-19 management

ZH Khan, A Siddique, CW Lee - International journal of environmental …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This paper describes the evolving role of robotics in healthcare and allied areas with special
concerns relating to the management and control of the spread of the novel coronavirus …

Design for Additive Manufacturing: Recent Innovations and Future Directions

PF Egan - Designs, 2023 - mdpi.com
Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM) provides a necessary framework for using novel
additive manufacturing (AM) technologies for engineering innovations. Recent AM advances …

3D printing polymeric materials for robots with embedded systems

RNM Delda, RB Basuel, RP Hacla, DWC Martinez… - Technologies, 2021 - mdpi.com
The fabrication of robots and their embedded systems is challenging due to the complexity
of the interacting components. The integration of additive manufacturing (AM) to robotics has …

Enhancing torsional stiffness of continuum robots using 3-D topology optimized flexure joints

Y Sun, TC Lueth - IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Flexure-joint-based continuum robots are used in a variety of engineering applications, such
as minimally invasive surgery and space exploration. However, some highly flexible joints …

End-to-end design of bespoke, dexterous snake-like surgical robots: A case study with the RAVEN II

A Razjigaev, AK Pandey, D Howard… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Keyhole surgery requires highly dexterous snake-like robotic arms capable of bending
around anatomical obstacles to access clinical targets that diverge from the direct port-of …

Sgcl: A b-rep-based geometry modeling language in matlab for designing 3d-printable medical robots

Y Sun, TC Lueth - 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The additive manufacturing technology greatly shortens the design and fabrication period of
a complex robotic system, as the entire system can be once printed in a short time without …

3D printing of millimetre wave and low-terahertz frequency selective surfaces using aerosol jet technology

A Shastri, B Sanz-Izquierdo, EA Parker, S Gao… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An investigation of the use of Aerosol jet 3D Printing of frequency selective surface for
millimetre and low-THz applications is presented in this article. This 3D printing technique …

Minimally invasive intracerebral hemorrhage evacuation: a review

MJ Musa, AB Carpenter, C Kellner, D Sigounas… - Annals of biomedical …, 2022 - Springer
Intracerebral hemorrhage is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. To date,
there is no specific treatment that clearly provides a benefit in functional outcome or …