In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to
medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility …

Purpose Surgical robotics has developed throughout the past 30 years resulting in more
than 5000 different approaches proposed for various surgical disciplines supporting different …

Vascular interventional surgery has its advantages compared to traditional operation. Master-
slave robotic technology can further improve the operation accuracy, efficiency and safety of …

Aiming at solving the problems of low flexibility, poor internal extension, and chopstick effect
in most laparoscopic surgical robots, this letter presents a flexible tendon-driven continuum …

Soft robots have great potential in surgical applications due to their compliance and
adaptability to their environment. However, their flexibility and nonlinearity bring challenges …

Although the soft robot is gaining considerable popularity in dexterous and safe
manipulation, accurate motion control is still an open problem to be explored. Recent …

Intraoperative tissue identification is important and frequently required in modern surgical
approaches for guiding operation. For this purpose, a novel robot assisted sensing system …

This paper presents the concept of a novel telemanipulator for minimally invasive surgery,
along with numerical analysis to validate the main system performance. The proposed …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to improve surgical scene perception by addressing
the challenge of reconstructing highly dynamic surgical scenes. We proposed a novel depth …

Automatic laparoscope motion control is fundamentally important for surgeons to efficiently
perform operations. However, its traditional control methods based on tool tracking without …