Magnetically actuated continuum medical robots: A review

Z Yang, H Yang, Y Cao, Y Cui… - Advanced intelligent …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The magnetic field has unique advantages in manipulating miniature robots working inside
the human body, such as high transparency to biological tissue and good controllability for …

Control and autonomy of microrobots: Recent progress and perspective

J Jiang, Z Yang, A Ferreira… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
After decades of development, microrobots have exhibited great application potential in the
biomedical field, such as minimally invasive surgery, drug delivery, and bio‐sensing …

Location-aware ingestible microdevices for wireless monitoring of gastrointestinal dynamics

S Sharma, KB Ramadi, NH Poole, SS Srinivasan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Localization and tracking of ingestible microdevices in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is
valuable for the diagnosis and treatment of GI disorders. Such systems require a large field …

Biomedical applications of untethered mobile milli/microrobots

M Sitti, H Ceylan, W Hu, J Giltinan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Untethered robots miniaturized to the length scale of millimeter and below attract growing
attention for the prospect of transforming many aspects of health care and bioengineering …

EndoSLAM dataset and an unsupervised monocular visual odometry and depth estimation approach for endoscopic videos

KB Ozyoruk, GI Gokceler, TL Bobrow, G Coskun… - Medical image …, 2021 - Elsevier
Deep learning techniques hold promise to develop dense topography reconstruction and
pose estimation methods for endoscopic videos. However, currently available datasets do …

Challenges of continuum robots in clinical context: a review

T da Veiga, JH Chandler, P Lloyd… - Progress in …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
With the maturity of surgical robotic systems based on traditional rigid-link principles, the rate
of progress slowed as limits of size and controllable degrees of freedom were reached …

Magnetically actuated soft capsule endoscope for fine-needle biopsy

D Son, H Gilbert, M Sitti - Soft robotics, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Wireless capsule endoscopes have revolutionized diagnostic procedures in the
gastrointestinal (GI) tract by minimizing discomfort and trauma. Biopsy procedures, which …

Design, manufacturing and applications of small-scale magnetic soft robots

M Eshaghi, M Ghasemi, K Khorshidi - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2021 - Elsevier
During past few years, applications of untethered magnetically controlled soft robots in the
biomedical operations have been extensively reported, which is attributed to the efficient …

[HTML][HTML] Deep endovo: A recurrent convolutional neural network (rcnn) based visual odometry approach for endoscopic capsule robots

M Turan, Y Almalioglu, H Araujo, E Konukoglu, M Sitti - Neurocomputing, 2018 - Elsevier
Ingestible wireless capsule endoscopy is an emerging minimally invasive diagnostic
technology for inspection of the GI tract and diagnosis of a wide range of diseases and …

Localization strategies for robotic endoscopic capsules: a review

F Bianchi, A Masaracchia… - Expert review of …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Nowadays, mass screening campaigns for colorectal cancer diagnosis in the
early and curable stage is essential yet limited due to many reasons, for example …