Current Engineering Developments for Robotic Systems in Flexible Endoscopy

Alian, Amirhosein; Zari, Emilia; Wang, Zeyu; Franco, Enrico; Avery, James; Runciman, Mark; Lo, Benny; Baena, Ferdinando Rodriguez y; Mylonas, George P.

doi:10.1016/j.tige.2022.11.006

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“…There is an increasing interest in developing medical devices for various uses including minimally invasive surgery based on advances in soft robotics [138][139][140][141][142][143]. Recent development of new colonoscopy endoscopes show tendency to replace conventional systems with soft robots [144]. Soft robots with the ability of compliance matching with biological structures are the best candidates for many biomedical applications such as artificial muscle fabrication, muscle alternatives, catheters, prosthetic devices, stents and surgical instruments, and physical therapy or rehabilitation devices [145,146].…”

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Soft Medical Robots and Probes: Concise Survey of Current Advances

Sayahkarajy,

Witte

2023

Design, Construction, Maintenance

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Soft robotics has emerged as a new branch of robotics gaining huge research interest in recent decades. Owning intrinsic advantages such as compliance and safety, soft robots are closely associated with the medical requirements of medical robots. This review is written to overview advances in the medical applications of soft robots, either for readers primarily familiar with traditional medical systems, or for researchers planning to develop soft robots for medical applications. Recent publications related to soft medical robots were reviewed to represent the state’, ’of’, ’the’, ’art advances in this field. The review tends to compress the scope to trunk’, ’shaped soft robots and appraise the status of soft robots and their distance from clinical use. Several papers related to the construction and capabilities of soft robots were referenced. Roughly 190 related articles published in the current period from 2018 to the publication date (representing almost 90% of the references to the theme totally identified) were reviewed. Structure of soft robots, advances in technology, and the aptitudes in medical applications were discussed. The trunk’, ’like soft robots conspicuously are proposed for applications including robot assisted surgery where a probe is inserted into the human body. Such robots are also present in other medical robots as actuators. The literature shows that different methods are used to fabricate soft robots and employ them in different robotics tasks including positioning, grasping, and force exertion. Noticeably, such studies were done in robotics laboratories, dealing with robotics engineering problems. This review suggests that the technology is actively developing, but further focus on specific medical applications is required to fill the gap between soft robotics and its clinical use.

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