Context As robot-assisted surgery is increasingly used in surgical care, the engineering
research effort towards surgical automation has also increased significantly. Automation …

The pairing of Virtual Reality technology with Physiological Sensing has gained much
interest in clinical settings and beyond: from developing novel methods for diagnosis of …

This paper presents an integrated scheme based on a mixed reality (MR) and haptic
feedback approach for intuitive and immersive teleoperation of robotic welding systems. By …

There is a growing, widespread trend of adopting robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery
(RMIS) in clinical care. Dry lab robot training and virtual reality simulation are commonly …

Enhancing human user performance in some complex task is an important research
question in many domains from skilled manufacturing to rehabilitation and surgical training …

Multiple models exist for the evaluation of human motor performance; some of these rely on
the Index of Difficulty (ID), a measure to evaluate the difficulty associated to simple reaching …

This article studies fine motor strategies for precise spatial manipulation in close-to-body
interactions. Our innate ability for precise work is the result of the confluence of visuo-tactile …

Surgical movements have an important stylistic quality that individuals without formal
surgical training can use to identify expertise. In our prior work, we sought to characterize …

Collaborative robots are advancing the healthcare frontier, in applications such as
rehabilitation and physical therapy. Effective physical collaboration in human-robot systems …

In recent years, with the rapid development of space exploration, deep-sea discovery,
nuclear rehabilitation and management, and robotic-assisted medical devices, there is an …