Article intro

This review is still valid: A decade retrospective of medical robotics research from 2010 to 2020, from Prof. Dupont et al. 

Abstract 

Robotics is a forward-looking discipline. Attention is focused on identifying the next grand challenges. In an applied field like medical robotics, however, it is important to plan the future based on a clear understanding of what the research community has recently accomplished and where this work stands with respect to clinical needs and commercialization. This Review article identifies and analyzes the eight key research themes in medical robotics over the last decade. These thematic areas were identified using search criteria that identified the most highly cited papers of the decade. Our goal for this Review article is to provide an accessible way for readers to quickly appreciate some of the most exciting accomplishments in medical robotics over the last decade, for this reason we have focused only on a small number of seminal papers in each thematic area. We hope that this article serves to foster an entrepreneurial spirit in researchers to reduce the widening gap between research and translation. 

One-Sentence Summary:

Eighty percent of medical robotics papers have been published in the last decade – what has been accomplished?

Source: Science Robotics