This paper provides a comprehensive review of the literature regarding precision piezoelectric
motors over long ranges based on the principle of repeating a series of small periodic …

Stretchable skin-like pressure sensing with minimized and distinguishable strain-induced
interference is essential for the development of collision-aware surgical robotics to improve the …

Nearest-neighbor (NN) procedures are well studied and widely used in both supervised
and unsupervised learning problems. In this paper we are concerned with investigating the …

To possess sufficient compliance while keeping an acceptable stiffness level for manipulation
with precision, transoral robotic surgery (TORS) demands a flexible robotic system with …

Robot-assisted single port access surgery (SPAS) brings significant benefits to the patients.
However, it is challenging due to the limited incision size and requirements in precision, load …

This work presents a novel soft actuator with a 3D-printed elastic body based on a fused-deposition-modeling
technique and with tendon actuation based on flexible shafts, which allow …

Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) allows for access to oropharyngeal regions in an effective
and minimally invasive manner. However, safe TORS access to deep pharyngeal (such as …

People living with HIV (PLWH) have poor outcomes from severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2); vaccination reduces the associated mortality. The humoral …

This paper develops an innovative multilateral teleoperation system with two haptic devices
on the master side and a newly designed reconfigurable multi-fingered robot on the slave …

There are high risks of infection for surgeons during the face-to-face COVID-19 swab sampling
due to the novel coronavirus’s infectivity. To address this issue, we propose a flexible …