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Viviane Kostrubiec, Jeanne Kruck
The present work is a collaborative research aimed at testing the effectiveness of the robot-assisted intervention administered in real clinical settings by real educators. Social robots dedicated to assisting persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are rarely used in clinics. In a collaborative effort to bridge…
Wenke Duan, Toluwanimi Akinyemi, Wenjing Du, Jun Ma + 7 more
'Fuhao Wang' 'Olatunji Omisore' 'Jingjing Luo' 'Hongbo Wang' 'Lei Wang' 'Amirreza Aghakhani'] Prior methods of patient care have changed in recent years due to the availability of minimally invasive surgical platforms for endovascular interventions. These platforms have demonstrated the ability to improve patients’…
Yen-Wei Chen, Wei-Chi Chiang, Chia-Ling Chang, Shih-Ming Lo + 1 more
'Ching-Yi Wu'] Background Robot-assisted hand training has shown positive effects on promoting neuromuscular control. Since both robot-assisted therapy and task-oriented training are often used in post-stroke rehabilitation, we raised the question of whether two interventions engender differential effects in different…
Nabil Simaan, Rashid Yasin, Long Wang
Emerging paradigms furthering the reach of medical technology deeper into human anatomy present unique modeling, control and sensing problems. This paper discusses a brief history of medical robotics leading to the current trend of minimally invasive intervention and diagnostics in confined spaces. Robotics for natural…
Mai Thanh Thai, Phuoc Thien Phan, Shing Wai Wong, Nigel H. Lovell + 1 more
'Thanh Nho'] Surgical robots have had clinical use since the mid 1990s. Robot-assisted surgeries offer many benefits over the conventional approach including lower risk of infection and blood loss, shorter recovery, and an overall safer procedure for patients. The past few decades have shown many emerging surgical…
Simone Ma, Tiffany Leung, Shanzun Wei, Tharun Anand Reddy Sure + 13 more
Background In recent epochs, the field of critical medicine has experienced significant advancements due to the integration of artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, AI robots have evolved from theoretical concepts to being actively implemented in clinical trials and applications. The intensive care unit (ICU)…
Hitesh Chopra, Atif Amin Baig, Simona Cavalu, Inderbir Singh + 1 more
'Talha Bin Emran'] Dear Editor, When a procedure is called “robotic,” it does not indicate that a robot is really doing the work. Instead, it refers to surgical procedures in which doctors use robots to guide their actions. One or more robotic arms may be used in robotic surgical systems, which doctors can operate…
Antonio Di Lallo, Robin R. Murphy, Axel Krieger, Junxi Zhu + 2 more
'Russell H. Taylor' 'Hao Su'] Abstract— Medical robots can play an important role in mitigating the spread of infectious diseases and delivering quality care to patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods and procedures involving medical robots in the continuum of care, ranging from disease prevention, screening…
Laurel D. Riek
This chapter discusses the existing use of and future potential use of robotics technology in mental health care. Robotics technology primarily refers to robots, which are physically embodied systems capable of enact- ing physical change in the world. Robots enact this change with effectors that either move the robot…
Alexey Shvets, Alexander Rakhlin, Alexandr A. Kalinin, Vladimir Iglovikov
Semantic segmentation of robotic instruments is an important problem for the robot-assisted surgery. One of the main challenges is to correctly detect an instrument’s position for the tracking and pose estimation in the vicinity of surgical scenes. Accurate pixel-wise instrument segmentation is needed to address this…
Sivakumar Balasubramanian, Sandeep Guguloth, Javeed Shaikh Mohammed, S. Sujatha
Current evidence indicates that individual joint training with robotic devices can be as effective as multi-joint training for the arm. This makes a case for developing simpler and more compact robots for training individual joints of the arm. Such robots have the highest potential for clinical translation. To this…
George Koulaouzidis, Dafni Charisopoulou, Piotr Bomba, Jaroslaw Stachura + 7 more
'Jaroslaw Stachura' 'Pawel Gasior' 'Jan Harpula' 'John Zarifis' 'Wojciech Marlicz' 'Damian Hudziak' 'Tomasz Jadczyk' 'Alan P. Sawchuk'] Robots are defined as programmable machines that can perform specified tasks. Medical robots are emerging solutions in the field of cardiology leveraging recent technological…
Michael C. Yip, N. R. Das
Autonomous surgery involves having surgical tasks performed by a robot operating under its own will, with partial or no human involvement. There are several important advantages of automation in surgery, which include increasing precision of care due to sub-millimeter robot control, real-time utilization of biosignals…
Yihao Liu, Shuya (Joshua) Liu, Shahriar Sefati, Jing Tian + 2 more
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) is a neurostimulation technique based on the principle of electromagnetic induction of an electric field in the brain with both research and clinical applications. To produce an optimal neuro-modulatory effect, the TMS coil must be placed on the head and oriented accurately with…
Laura Petrich, Jun Jin, Masood Dehghan, Martin Jägersand
— Human assistive robotics have the potential to help the elderly and individuals living with disabilities with their Activities of Daily Living (ADL). Robotics researchers present bottom up solutions using various control methods for different types of movements. Health research on the other hand focuses on clinical…
Jongmin M. Lee, Temesgen Gebrekristos, Dalia De Santis, Mahdieh Nejati-Javaremi + 4 more
Learning to perform everyday tasks, using a complex robot, presents a nested problem. It is nested, because, on the surface, there is a problem of robot control—but within it, there lies a deeper, more challenging problem that demands the control nuances necessary to perform complicated functional tasks. For…
Claudia D’Ettorre, Andrea Mariani, Agostino Stilli, Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena + 8 more
'Ferdinando Rodriguez y Baena' 'Pietro Valdastri' 'Anton Deguet' 'Peter Kazanzides' 'Russell H. Taylor' 'Gregory S. Fischer' 'Simon DiMaio' 'Arianna Menciassi' 'Danail Stoyanov'] Abstract— Robotic-assisted surgery is now well-established in clinical practice and has become the gold standard clinical treatment option…
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Process chemistry creates scalable routes for new lead molecules and is a crucial but laborious stage in pharmaceutical and agrochemical development cycles. We have built an automated process chemistry platform that tackles late-stage process development. The modular workflow integrates both industry-standard tools and…
Eduard Fosch‐Villaronga, Hadassah Drukarch
The authors would like to thank Mrs. Aline-Priscilla Messi and Mrs. Rosalie ten Wolde for their help on the first draft of some parts of this report during their student assistantship as part of the Honors College Law at Leiden University during March-Aug 2020. The authors would also like to thank T.J.C. Faes…
Sebastijan Veselic, Claudio Zito, Dario Farina
Designing robotic assistance devices for manipulation tasks is challenging. This work aims at improving accuracy and usability of physical human-robot interaction (pHRI) where a user interacts with a physical robotic device (e.g., a human operated manipulator or exoskeleton) by transmitting signals which need to be…
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This comprehensive review examines the evolution of autonomous materials synthesis laboratories that integrate artificial intelligence with advanced robotics to accelerate discovery. Traditional materials development pipelines typically require 10-20 years, but self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and Materials…
Yoritaka Harazono, Haruko Shimono, Kikumi Hata, Toutai Mitsuyama + 1 more
An inexpensive single-arm robot is widely utilized for recent laboratory automation solutions. The integration of a single-arm robot as a transfer system into a semi-automatic liquid dispenser without a transfer system can be realized as an inexpensive alternative to a fully automated liquid handling system. However…
Naruki Yoshikawa, Kourosh Darvish, Animesh Garg, Alan Aspuru-Guzik
Self-driving laboratories promise to democratize automated chemical laboratories. Accurate liquid handling is an essential operation in the context of chemical labs, and consequently a self-driving laboratory will require a robotic liquid handling and transfer. Although many pipettes are available for human scientists…
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The development of polymer materials for real-world applications requires careful assessment of material degradation over time and under environmental exposure. Such tests often necessitate frequent monitoring of test specimens, which can become burdensome for researchers. In this study, we present the application of a…
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This paper details a 3D-printed plate handler designed to address the limitation of automated plate manipulation within the Opentrons OT-2 liquid handling robot. The hardware enables precise, automated labware transfer, expanding the OT-2’s capabilities for complex biological and chemical assays. Technically, it…
Valerio Fasano, Rory Mykura, James Fordham, Jack Rogers + 3 more
Automation has fuelled dramatic advances in fields such as proteomics and genomics (e.g., in preparation of proteins and nucleic acids),1,2 enabling non-experts to prepare, test and analyse complex biological molecules. However, the field of automated organic synthesis lags far behind, partly because of the complexity…
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This paper presents GLAS (Git-based Lab Automated Scheduler or Get Lab Automation Simplified), an open-source, robust, and highly expandable Git-based architecture designed for laboratory automation. GLAS can be deployed in both partially and fully automated experimental science laboratories, enabling the development…