Endovascular robotics

Flexible robotics with electromagnetic tracking improves safety and efficiency during in vitro endovascular navigation.

OBJECTIVE One limitation of the use of robotic catheters is the lack of real-time three-dimensional (3D) localization and position updating: they are still navigated based on two-dimensional (2D) X-ray fluoroscopic projection images. Our goal was to evaluate whether incorporating an electromagnetic (EM) sensor on a robotic catheter tip could improve endovascular navigation. METHODS Six users ...

Kinematics effectively delineate accomplished users of endovascular robotics with a physical training model.

OBJECTIVE Endovascular robotics systems, now approved for clinical use in the United States and Europe, are seeing rapid growth in interest. Determining who has sufficient expertise for safe and effective clinical use remains elusive. Our aim was to analyze performance on a robotic platform to determine what defines an expert user. METHODS During three sessions, 21 subjects with a range of en...

CULTURAL ROBOTICS: The Culture of Robotics and Robotics in Culture

In this paper, we have investigated the concept of "Cultural Robotics" with regard to the evolution of social into cultural robots in the 21st Century. By defining the concept of culture, the potential development of a culture between humans and robots is explored. Based on the cultural values of the robotics developers, and the learning ability of current robots, cultural attributes in this re...

Handbook of Robotics Chapter 61: Evolutionary Robotics

Science for robotics and robotics for science

Guang-ZhongYang is the Editor of Science Robotics and theDirector andCo-founder of theHamlynCentre for Robotic Surgery, Imperial College London, U.K. Email: [email protected] James Bellingham is the Director of the Center forMarine Robotics,WoodsHoleOceanographic Institution,WoodsHole,MA02543, USA. HowieChoset is a Professor at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg...