title: A research review on clinical needs, technical requirements, and normativity in the design of surgical robots.
abstract: Nowadays robots play an important role in society, mainly due to the significant benefits they provide when utilized for assisting human beings in the execution of dangerous or repetitive tasks. Medicine is one of the fields in which robots are gaining greater use and development, especially those employed in minimally invasive surgery (MIS). However, due to the particular conditions of the human body where robots have to act, the design of these systems is complex, not only from a technical point of view, but also because the clinical needs and the normativity aspects are important considerations that have to be taken into account in order to achieve better performances and more secure systems for patients and surgeons. Thus, this paper explores the clinical needs and the technical requirements that will trace the roadmap for the next scientific and technological advances in the field of robotic surgery, the metrics that should be defined for safe technology development and the standards that are being elaborated for boosting the industry and facilitating systems integration.
authors.affiliation: Universidad Tecnológica del Valle de Toluca, Carretera del Departamento del D. F., Lerma, México.
authors.forename: Carlos Eduardo
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Díaz
authors.affiliation: Centre for Automation and Robotics CAR (CSIC-UPM), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Roemi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.affiliation: Centre for Automation and Robotics CAR (CSIC-UPM), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Armada
authors.affiliation: Universidad Tecnológica del Valle de Toluca, Carretera del Departamento del D. F., Lerma, México.
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: García
mesh_terms: D001835:Body Weight; D003657:Decision Making; D018795:Device Approval; D004867:Equipment Design; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D019060:Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D009873:Operating Rooms; D012306:Risk; D065287:Robotic Surgical Procedures; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration
keywords: MIS; clinical needs; metrics; normativity; standards; surgical robots