4 accepted papers
This work is towards targeted drug delivery using microrobots functionalized to navigate towards naturally occurring pH gradients caused by cancer cells, and to release a payload in response to a light stimulus. Stimuli-responsive microrobots for the localization of specific cell types and targeted…
The recent evolution of surgical robots has resolved a number of ergonomic issues associated with conventional minimally invasive surgery (MIS) in terms of aligned visiomotor axes, motion scaling and ergonomics. One of the latest advances is the introduction of human-robot cooperative control combin
Whilst current minimally invasive surgical robots offer many advantages to the surgeon, most of them are still controlled using the traditional master-slave approach, without fully exploiting the complementary strengths of both the human user and the robot. This paper proposes a framework that provi…
Micromanipulation tasks are usually carried out using simplistic tools such as rigid probes and needles. More sophisticated tools such as grippers are fragile, expensive and non-dexterous. This paper addresses some of the main challenges of manipulation at the micrometer scale, including robots with…