Surgical Applications of Compliant Mechanisms: A Review

Abstract Current surgical devices are mostly rigid and made of stiff materials, even though their predominant use is on soft wet tissues. With the emergence compliant mechanisms (CMs), tools can be designed to flexible using materials. CMs offer many advantages such as monolithic fabrication, high precision, no wear, friction, need for lubrication. It therefore beneficial consolidate developments in this field point challenges ahead. objective, article, we review application interventions. The scope covers five aspects that important development devices: (i) conceptual design synthesis, (ii) analysis, (iii) (iv) manufacturing, (v) actuation. Furthermore, applications assessed by classification into major groups, namely, grasping cutting, reachability steerability, transmission, sensing, implants deployable devices. prospects also discussed.