Design of a novel wearable laparoscope manipulator: SMART (Synthetic Muscle Actuator based Robotic Technology)

International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue SUPPL. 7, 2006, Pages 213-215

  Taniguchi, Kazuhiro ^a   Nishikawa, Atsushi ^a   Sekimoto, Mitsugu ^a   Yasui, Masayoshi ^a   Takiguchi, Shuji ^a   Seki, Yosuke ^a   Monden, Morito ^a   Miyazaki, Fumio ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Artificial muscles; Compact medical robot; Minimally invasive surgery; Parallel mechanism; Wearable robot

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748974624     PISSN: 18616410     EISSN: 18616429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11548-006-0057-1     Document Type: Article

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