Soft Robotics in Minimally Invasive Surgery

Abstract Soft robotic devices have desirable traits for applications in minimally invasive surgery (MIS), but many interdisciplinary challenges remain unsolved. To understand current technologies, we carried out a keyword search using the Web of Science and Scopus databases, applied inclusion and exclusion criteria, and compared several characteristics of the soft robotic devices for MIS in the resulting articles. There was low diversity in the device designs and a wide-ranging level of detail regarding their capabilities. We propose a standardized comparison methodology to characterize soft robotics for various MIS applications, which will aid designers producing the next generation of devices.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Soft Robotics

• Publication date

  2019-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1089/soro.2018.0136PMID 30920355PMCID 6690729
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

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