First, do no harm

I have designed a teleoperated robotic bronchoscopy system, featuring a controllable variable-stiffness catheter that enhances stability and flexibility during transbronchial biopsies. The 7 DoF robotic system allows for translation, rotation, and bending of the bronchoscope; delivery and bending of the catheter; delivery and control of biopsy tools; as well as... [Read More]

Continuum robot has evolved as a novel treatment modality with better features over the traditional minimally invasive surgery, such as faster, safer, and more convenient intra-body interventions without wide incisions. They are designed to navigate anatomical pathways through single-port access, e.g. natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery or minimal incisions. Continuum... [Read More]

I have designed an isomorphic master-salve Vascular Interventional Surgical Robot (VISR) for precise force measurement and navigation of endovascular tools viz. catheters and guidewires. The master console aids operators in issuing manipulation commands and logs feedback from the force, rotation, and translation data. The slave manipulator uses the commands received... [Read More]

The robotic system includes a force box used for measuring the tactile force that interventionalists exerted with their fingers. This force is regarded as the interventionalists’ operative force on the guidewire or catheter in regular surgery. The force box includes a 32-prism, tiny flexible strip sensors, PCBs, and batteries. A... [Read More]

This is a demo post to show you how to write blog posts with markdown. I strongly encourage you to take 5 minutes to learn how to write in markdown - it’ll teach you how to transform regular text into bold/italics/tables/etc.I also encourage you to look at the code that... [Read More]