A new planar robotic exoskeleton for upper-limb motor assessment has been developed. It provides independent control of a user’s shoulder, elbow, and wrist joints in the horizontal plane. The lightweight backdriveable robot is based on a novel cable-driven curved track and carriage system that enables the entire mechanism to be located underneath the user’s arm. It has been designed to extend t...

Robotic thyroidectomy has been a good option in the treatment of benign and early stage differentiated thyroid cancers, with several functional benefits. In the last few years, many surgeons have established their own robotic thyroidectomy techniques, and published many reports on the feasibility, safety and benefits of their robotic procedures. Although there are many different surgical techni...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Robotic surgery is increasingly used for a variety of head and neck surgical procedures but has yet to be adapted for routine robotic microlaryngeal surgery (RMLS). Current retractor technology is limited by the following: poor tongue retraction, poor oral commissure retraction, poor larynx visualization, and laryngeal blades that do not take advantage of the robot's abili...

The use of master-slave surgical robots for Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has created a physical separation between the surgeon and the patient. Reconnecting the essential visuomotor sensory feedback is important for the safe practice of robotic assisted MIS procedures. This paper introduces a novel gaze contingent framework with real-time haptic feedback by transforming visual sensory infor...

The daVinci robotic surgical platform (Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA) is the only FDA-approved robotic surgical system for use in humans. The daVinci fi rst made its debut in 1999 when it was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for surgical prostatectomy and cardiothoracic applications. The growth of robotics in urology, especially for radical prostatectomies is welldocume...

Robotic systems have been developed in every field where a further progress was constricted due to the human limitations in terms of speed, precision, fatigue, repeatability, strength, safety etc. The two major types of robots, the serial ones (anthropomorphic, open-architecture) and the parallel ones (closed-loop mechanisms) have divided their spectrum of dominance in different applications ba...

conclusions due to the shorter :union: time, to some extent less complication rate and comparable functional and clinical results, the authors recommend to use the mipo technique in treating the mid-distal humeral shaft fracture. results the median of :union: time was shorter in the mipo group (4 months versus 5 months). the time of surgery and functional outcomes based on the ucla and meps sco...

objectives: the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of modified widman flap (mwf) surgery (as a periodontal treatment procedure) on maximum bite force (mbf; as an indicator of patient function). materials and methods: in this clinical trial, 24 patients were examined for their mbf before and at one, four and eight weeks after their mwf surgery. these recordings along with th...

conclusions primary scec is a rare and highly aggressive tumor. however, prognosis is poor and long-term survival is exceptional. crt could be an appropriate alternative to operation. patients and methods this brief report was carried out by reviewing the medical records of 22 patients with newly histologically proven scec that were treated between 2000 and 2010 at 2 tertiary academic hospitals...