Robots in laparoscopic surgery: current and future status

In this paper, we focus on robots used for laparoscopic surgery, which is one of the most active areas for research and development of surgical robots. We introduce research and development of laparoscope-holder robots, master-slave robots and hand-held robotic forceps. Then, we discuss future directions for surgical robots. For robot hardware, snake like flexible mechanisms for single-port access surgery (SPA) and NOTES (Natural Orifice Transluminal Endoscopic Surgery) and applications of soft robotics are actively used. On the software side, research such as automation of surgical procedures using machine learning is one of the hot topics.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  BMC Biomedical Engineering

• Publication date

  2019-05-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1186/s42490-019-0012-1PMID 32903302PMCID 7422514
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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