Since 1985 when the first use of robot in surgery fields, the interest and the amount of research in surgical robots have been increase significantly. Various surgical robot systems have been developed, and many design models have been proposed. This paper discusses the development of surgical robot design and touches some design and control characteristics which are useful for the research in the field. The paper also provides the recent trends in the field and discusses some commercial surgical robots.
Surgical Robot Design Development
Applied Mechanics and Materials ; 415 ; 14-17
2013-09-03
4 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English