In the past year, we have been busy working on this article to provide a complete overview of the surgical robotics landscape. Updates will appear to it frequently on this blog, and should you have relevant news, let us know! Hope you will enjoy reading it.
Mathias Hoeckelmann, Imre J. Rudas, Paolo
Fiorini, Frank Kirchner and Tamas Haidegger
"Commercial surgical robots have been in clinical use since the mid-1990s, supporting surgeons in various tasks. In the past decades, many systems emerged as research platforms, and a few entered the global market. This paper summarizes the currently available surgical systems and research directions in the broader field of surgical robotics. The widely deployed teleoperated manipulators aim to enhance human cognitive and physical skills and provide smart tools for surgeons, while image-guided robotics focus on surpassing human limitations by introducing automated targeting and treatment delivery methods. Both concepts are discussed based on prototypes and commercial systems. Through concrete examples the possible future development paths of surgical robots are illustrated. While research efforts are taking different approaches to improve the capacity of such systems, the aim of this survey is to assess their maturity from the commercialization point of view."
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