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BackgroundMinimally invasive surgery (MIS) suffers from the inability to directly palpate organs for tumour localization. A tactile sensing system (TSS), consisting of a probe and a visualization interface, was developed to present an active pressure map of the contact surface to locate tumours during MIS.
MethodsThe TSS performance was compared to MIS graspers to locate occult 10 mm phantom tumours...
BackgroundAutonomous control of surgical robotic platforms may offer enhancements such as higher precision, intelligent manoeuvres, tissue‐damage avoidance, etc. Autonomous robotic systems in surgery are largely at the experimental level. However, they have also reached clinical application.
MethodsA literature review pertaining to commercial medical systems which incorporate autonomous and semi‐autonomous...
BackgroundRobotic‐assisted minimally invasive surgery systems not only have the advantages of traditional laparoscopic instruments but also have other important advantages, including restoring the surgeon's hand–eye coordination and improving the surgeon's precision by filtering hand tremors. Unfortunately, these benefits have come at the expense of the surgeon's ability to feel. Various solutions...
BackgroundSurgical robotic systems have been proven to be accurate and dexterous during minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) requires more compact robotic arms with sufficient dexterity and output.
MethodsA shape memory alloy (SMA)‐actuated instrument was adopted to assist operations. The instrument fixed at the slave site had three degrees of freedom...
Background
Despite its high lesion accessibility and versatility, endoscopic platforms have suffered from designing flexible manipulators with high payload capability sufficient to perform advanced endoscopic procedures.
Methods
A flexible robotic platform, K‐FLEX, has been developed with a design of 17 mm in overall diameter. To overcome the shape distortion and deflection in payload handling,...
Introduction
To date, no anti‐reflux operations have been reported with the new da Vinci Single‐Port (single port (SP)) robotic platform. We aimed to describe this novel surgical approach and evaluate its safety and feasibility.
Methods
All robotic SP operations were performed under an Institutional Review Board approved protocol.
Results
Two patients underwent robotic SP anti‐reflux surgery...
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