Background: Soft materials, with their compliant properties, enable conformity and safe interaction with human body. With the advance in actuation and sensing of soft materials, new paradigm in robotics called “soft robotics” emerges. Soft robotics has become a new approach in designing medical devices such as wearable robotic gloves and exoskeleton. However, application of soft robotics in surgical instrument inside human body is still in its infancy. Aims: In this paper, current application and design of soft robots specifically applied for endoscopy are reviewed. Materials & Methods: Different aspects in the implementation of soft robotics in endoscope design were reviewed. The key studies about MIS and NOTES were reviewed to establish t...
In flexible endoscopy a flexible tube with a steerable camera is used to inspect the internal patien...
In recent years we have seen tremendous progress in the development of robotic solutions for minimal...
Background: Robot-assisted manipulation is promising for solving problems such as understaffing and ...
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents the gold standard in the majority of abdominal operation...
Soft and Stiffness-controllable Robotics Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery presents the resul...
In the ever advancing field of minimally invasive surgery, flexible instruments with local degrees o...
Robots are seeing increasing integration into the medical field, but they are often limited by their...
Most devices for single-site or natural orifice transluminal surgery are very application specific a...
Surgical robotics systems are trending towards combining the advantages of Minimally Invasive Surger...
Most devices for single-site or natural orifice transluminal surgery are very application specific a...
Minimally Invasive Surgery represents the future of many types of medical inter-ventions such as key...
Robotics enables a variety of unconventional actuation strategies to be used for endoscopes, resulti...
Traditional soft endoscopy is operated with naked eyes and use of hands. Robotic soft endoscopy free...
The rise of soft robotics opens new opportunities in endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery. Pneum...
The endoscope has become ubiquitous and indispensable, changing many surgical procedures from life-t...
In flexible endoscopy a flexible tube with a steerable camera is used to inspect the internal patien...
In recent years we have seen tremendous progress in the development of robotic solutions for minimal...
Background: Robot-assisted manipulation is promising for solving problems such as understaffing and ...
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents the gold standard in the majority of abdominal operation...
Soft and Stiffness-controllable Robotics Solutions for Minimally Invasive Surgery presents the resul...
In the ever advancing field of minimally invasive surgery, flexible instruments with local degrees o...
Robots are seeing increasing integration into the medical field, but they are often limited by their...
Most devices for single-site or natural orifice transluminal surgery are very application specific a...
Surgical robotics systems are trending towards combining the advantages of Minimally Invasive Surger...
Most devices for single-site or natural orifice transluminal surgery are very application specific a...
Minimally Invasive Surgery represents the future of many types of medical inter-ventions such as key...
Robotics enables a variety of unconventional actuation strategies to be used for endoscopes, resulti...
Traditional soft endoscopy is operated with naked eyes and use of hands. Robotic soft endoscopy free...
The rise of soft robotics opens new opportunities in endoscopy and minimally invasive surgery. Pneum...
The endoscope has become ubiquitous and indispensable, changing many surgical procedures from life-t...
In flexible endoscopy a flexible tube with a steerable camera is used to inspect the internal patien...
In recent years we have seen tremendous progress in the development of robotic solutions for minimal...
Background: Robot-assisted manipulation is promising for solving problems such as understaffing and ...