With fast and reliable international transportation, more people with different language backgrounds can interact now. As a result, the need for communicative agents fluent in several languages to ass...
Wearable robots are emerging as a viable and effective solution for assisting and enabling people who suffer from balance and mobility disorders. Virtual prototyping is a powerful tool to design robot...
Aging degrades the balance and locomotion ability due to frailty and pathological conditions. This demands balance rehabilitation and assistive technologies that help the affected population to regain...
A device named Mobile Robotic Balance Assistant (MRBA) is developed to address this problem. MRBA is a hybrid of a gait assistive robot and a powered wheelchair. When the user is walking around perfor...
When walking with MRBA, the healthy subjects have a lower speed, smaller step length and longer step time. The SCI subject experiences similar changes as well as a decrease in step width that indicate...
While there is still room for improvement in the robot compliance and the instability identification, the study demonstrates the first step in bringing gait assistive technologies into homes. We hope ...
The hinotori surgical robot system, a newly launched platform, has already been utilized in several urological robotic surgeries; however, limited information is available in terms of its feasibility ...
This study included a total of 11 consecutive patients with adrenal tumors undergoing RAA between July 2020 and November 2022 at our institution. Comprehensive perioperative outcomes in these patients...
Median age, body mass index (BMI), and tumor diameter in the hinotori group were 48 years, 27.5 kg/m...
Despite being a small case series, this is the first study focusing on RAA using the hinotori surgical robot system, which could be efficaciously performed, resulting in the achievement of perioperati...
Clark and Fischer propose that people interpret social robots not as social agents, but as interactive depictions. Drawing on research focusing on how children selectively learn from social others, we...
Despite benefits brought by recent neurosurgical robots, surgical safety and surgeon-robot collaboration remain significant challenges. In this article, we analyze and address these problems in the co...
A robotic module is designed for the automation of all the brain biopsy procedures, and a biopsy cannula with tissue blocker is developed to avoid tissue excess and haemorrhage. In addition, two metho...
Effectiveness of the proposed solution demonstrated by simulations and experiments....
The system can perform automatic navigation with simultaneous optical tracking maintenance and surgeon avoidance, autonomous brain biopsy, and adaptive reconfiguration for workspace interference minim...
This work improves existing neurosurgical systems, in terms of autonomy level from mechanical guidance to task autonomy, surgical safety, and surgeon-robot collaboration....
In recent years, multi-robot control systems and service robots equipped with graphical computing have been introduced in various application scenarios. However, the long-term operation of VSLAM calcu...
Active surveillance (AS), radical prostatectomy (RP), and radical radiotherapy (RT) are the three options for localized prostate cancer. Only a few studies have been conducted in developing countries ...
As the end execution tool of agricultural robots, the manipulator directly determines whether the grasping task can be successfully completed. The human hand can adapt to various objects and achieve s...
To compare and analyze the differences in safety, feasibility and short-term efficacy between robot-assisted right hemicolectomy (RARH) and totally robotic right hemicolectomy (TRRH). We collected the...
