... for occluded situations. Another design question is whether it is necessary to dedicate a robot arm to hold the endoscopic camera as is done in commercial MIS robots. Two design setups are tested by surgeons to share clinical perspectives and to understand clinical feasibility and utility: (A) two-DOF bendable...

...Saeed Sokhanvar; Mohammadreza Ramezanifard; Javad Dargahi; Muthukumaran Packirisamy Minimally invasive sugery (MIS) has increasingly been used in different surgical routines despite having significant shortcomings such as a lack of tactile feedback. Restoring this missing tactile information...

... 03 2006 01 08 2006 mobile robots medical robotics surgery biological tissues in vivo mobile robots vision task assistance surgery MIS Laparoscopy is minimally invasive surgery (MIS) performed in the abdominal cavity. The abdominal cavity is insufflated with carbon...