Current surgical devices are mostly rigid and are made of stiff materials, even though their
predominant use is on soft and wet tissues. With the emergence of compliant mechanisms …

This article presents the development and experimental evaluation of a redundant robotic
system for the less-invasive treatment of osteolysis (bone degradation) behind the …

This article presents a dexterous robotic system for autonomous debridement of osteolytic
bone lesions in confined spaces. The proposed system is distinguished from the state-of-the …

This article proposes a data-driven learning-based approach for shape sensing and Distal-
end Position Estimation (DPE) of a surgical Continuum Manipulator (CM) in constrained …

Although intelligent technologies has facilitated the development of precise orthopaedic,
simple internal fixation, ligament reconstruction or arthroplasty can only relieve pain of …

In conventional core decompression of osteonecrosis, surgeons cannot successfully reach
the whole area of the femoral head due to rigidity of the instruments currently used. To …

This letter presents the development and experimental evaluation of an active steering hand-
held robotic system for milling and curved drilling in minimally invasive orthopaedic …

A new type of cable-driven continuum manipulator (CM) is presented, in which the stiffness
of the device along its body length can be controlled using the thermomechanical properties …

Conventional shape sensing techniques using Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) involve finding the
curvature at discrete FBG active areas and integrating curvature over the length of the …

This letter presents the development and evaluation of concurrent control of a robotic system
for less-invasive treatment of osteolytic lesions behind an acetabular implant. This system …