A bioinspired soft manipulator for minimally invasive surgery

Bioinspiration and Biomimetics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Ranzani, T ^a   Gerboni, G ^a   Cianchetti, M ^a   Menciassi, A ^a  

^a SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bioinspired robot; minimally invasive surgery; soft robotics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; MANIPULATORS; MOLLUSCS; SHELLFISH; SURGERY;

BIO-INSPIRED ROBOTS; BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; MANIPULATION TASK; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; SINGLE MODULES; SOFT MANIPULATOR; SOFT ROBOTICS;

SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

OCTOPUS;

ANIMAL; BIOMIMETICS; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; LIMB; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OCTOPUS; PHYSIOLOGY; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURE;

ANIMALS; BIOMIMETICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EXTREMITIES; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OCTOPODIFORMES; ROBOTIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84935840758     PISSN: 17483182     EISSN: 17483190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-3190/10/3/035008     Document Type: Article

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