title: Formulation of wire control mechanism for surgical robot to create virtual reality environment aimed at conducting surgery inside the body.
abstract: We here report on the process of developing a surgical robot that can conduct operation "going inside the body without spreading the operational region". The endoscopic robot that we are developing now has a flexible cylindrical body with functions of a set of human arms at the tip and also with vision and haptic sense functions. We evaluated necessary technology factor to complete this robot into categories such as, transmission of energy, adaptation to insides of the body.
authors: Institute for High Dimensional Medical Imaging, The Jikei Univ. School of Med, Tokyo, Japan. nsuzuki@jikei.ac.jp
authors: Naoki
authors: N
authors: Suzuki
authors: Asaki
authors: A
authors: Hattori
authors: Satoshi
authors: S
authors: Ieiri
authors: Morimasa
authors: M
authors: Tomikawa
authors: Hajime
authors: H
authors: Kenmotsu
authors: Makoto
authors: M
authors: Hashizume
mesh_terms: D032701:Biomimetics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D019723:Endoscopes; D004867:Equipment Design; D019544:Equipment Failure Analysis; D006801:Humans; D057605:Natural Orifice Endoscopic Surgery / Q000295:instrumentation*; D012371:Robotics / Q000295:instrumentation*; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014584:User-Computer Interface