Remote Minimally Invasive Surgery – Haptic Feedback and Selective Automation in Medical Robotics by Christoph Staub, Keita Ono, Hermann Mayer, Alois Knoll, Heinz Ulbrich, Robert Bauernschmitt

“…The automation of recurrent tasks and force feedback are complex problems in medical robotics. We present a novel approach that extends human-machine skill-transfer by a scaffolding framework. …”
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Artificial intelligence in bioengineering: pioneering advances in medical robotics, imaging, and personalized therapeutics by Hang Su, Wen Qi, Juan Sandoval

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Remote Ultrasound Scan Procedures with Medical Robots: Towards New Perspectives between Medicine and Engineering by Maide Bucolo, Gea Bucolo, Arturo Buscarino, Agata Fiumara, Luigi Fortuna, Salvina Gagliano

“…Physicians’ experience is included to indicate the importance of their role in the design of improved medical robots. From this perspective, novel classes of equipment for remote diagnostics based on medical robotics are discussed in terms of innovative engineering technologies. …”
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Editorial: Latest trends in bio-inspired medical robotics: structural design, manufacturing, sensing, actuation and control by Yilun Sun, Houde Dai, Shuang Song, Angela Faragasso, Sara-Adela Abad Guaman

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Robot-assisted Neuroendoscopy: Surgeon’s Third Hand – a Proof of Concept Study by Karnam Murali, Rychen Jonathan, Guzman Raphael, Cattin Philippe C., Rauter Georg, Gerig Nicolas

Subjects: “…medical robotics…”
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A systematic review with narrative synthesis on medical robotics and laboratory automation in the control of SARS-CoV-2, Ebola and H1N1 (Swine Flu) viruses by Shantani KANNAN, Kannan SUBBARAM, Sheeza ALI, Hemalatha KANNAN

“…Introduction: Medical robotics is a rapidly growing aspect of the modern health care landscape. …”
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Toward Generality of a Framework for Quantifying Biomechanical Stability: Demonstration on the Ankle by Aleksander Skrede, Andreas Fagerhaug Dalen, Alf Inge Hellevik, Oyvind Stavdahl, Robin T. Bye

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Haptic Shared Control Framework with Interaction Force Constraint Based on Control Barrier Function for Teleoperation by Wenlei Qin, Haoran Yi, Zhibin Fan, Jie Zhao

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Design of a Cost-Effective Ultrasound Force Sensor and Force Control System for Robotic Extra-Body Ultrasound Imaging by Yixuan Zheng, Hongyuan Ning, Eason Rangarajan, Aban Merali, Adam Geale, Lukas Lindenroth, Zhouyang Xu, Weizhao Wang, Philipp Kruse, Steven Morris, Liang Ye, Xinyi Fu, Kawal Rhode, Richard James Housden

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Ingestible Wireless Capsule Technology: A Review of Development and Future Indication by M. R. Basar, F. Malek, Khairudi M. Juni, M. Shaharom Idris, M. Iskandar M. Saleh

“…A complex capsule with some therapeutic tools for the treatment of diseases of the GI tract also is at the beginning of development for the next generation of an active medical robot. In this paper, we report the status of several activities related to WCE, including improvement of capsule technology, research progress, technical challenges, and key indicators concerning the next-generation, active, medical robot.…”
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Interfacial cfDNA Enrichment and Amplification with On‐Chip Thermoplasmonics for Highly Sensitive Cancerous Liquid Biopsy by Danhua Wang, Linlin Liu, Wenjing Chi, Zhenping Liu, Jiayun Wu, Yirou Liang, Fei He, Ruixiang Zhang, Pengxin Huang, Yunbo Li, Guangyu Qiu

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Editorial: Mechanism explorations of enhancing immunotherapeutic sensitivity via mediating immune infiltration and programmed cell death in solid tumor microenvironment by Fang Zheng, Fang Zheng, Fang Zheng, Zhiliang Li, Ruoyu Weng, Baochi Ou, Tao Zhang, Ren Zhao, Ren Zhao, Ren Zhao, Haoran Feng, Haoran Feng, Haoran Feng

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A Bi-Level Probabilistic Path Planning Algorithm for Multiple Robots with Motion Uncertainty by Jingchuan Wang, Ruochen Tai, Jingwen Xu

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6G in Clinical Applications: Integrating New Network Approaches in Healthcare by Kolb Sven, Jurosch Franziska, Kröger Nicolai, Mehmeti Fidan, Bernhard Lukas, Fuchtmann Jonas, Speidel Stefanie, Kellerer Wolfgang, Wilhelm Dirk

“…This critical issue is further intensified by the fact that the healthcare system is still a strongly human-dependent and often insufficiently interconnected environment. Automation, medical robotics and the concept of model-based medicine can play a key role not only in addressing these issues and supporting clinical staff, but also in enabling new applications to improve patient care. …”
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A wireless instrumented insole for monitoring plantar pressure during human locomotion by Mariana Alegria, Mariana Ballesteros, David Cruz-Ortiz

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Transcranial vibration stimulation at 40 Hz induced neural activity and promoted the coupling of global brain activity and cerebrospinal fluid flow by Linghan Kong, Wei Jin, Yue Jiang, Fuhua Yan, Jun Liu, Eric C. Leuthardt, Guang-Zhong Yang, Yuan Feng

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Neuromorphic compliant control facilitates human-prosthetic performance for hand grasp functions by Anran Xie, Zhuozhi Zhang, Jie Zhang, Weidong Chen, James Patton, Ning Lan

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Fully integrated wearable control system for micro/nanorobot navigation by Zhanxiang Zhang, Lin Wang, Fengqi Jiang, Shimin Yu, Fengtong Ji, Tianhao Sun, He Zhang, Yanhe Zhu, Hao Chang, Tianlong Li, Jie Zhao

“…This wearable control system could play a crucial role in future intelligent medical applications and could be easily reconfigured toward other medical robots’ control.…”
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A Master-Slave Haptic System for Neurosurgery by Vanni Zanotto, Paolo Boscariol, Alessandro Gasparetto, Albano Lanzutti, Renato Vidoni, Nicola Di Lorenzo, Pasquale Gallina, Aldo Dalla Via, Aldo Rossi

“…For that reason, the interaction between robotic systems and surgeons today is producing new interest worldwide both in medical and engineering fields. In particular, medical robotics has found fruitful ground in neurosurgical applications, since the high functional density of the central nervous system requires strict accuracy constraints on tool positioning. …”
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Design and Control of an Upper Limb Bionic Exoskeleton Rehabilitation Device Based on Tensegrity Structure by Peng Ni, Jianwei Sun, Jialin Dong

“…Upper limb exoskeleton rehabilitation devices can improve the quality of rehabilitation and relieve the pressure of rehabilitation medical treatment, which is a research hotspot in the field of medical robots. Aiming at the problems such as large volume, high cost, low comfort, and difficulty in promotion of traditional exoskeleton rehabilitation devices, and considering the lightweight, discontinuous, high flexibility, and high biomimetic characteristics of tensegrity structure, we designed an upper limb bionic exoskeleton rehabilitation device based on tensegrity structure. …”
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