5 accepted papers
We develop a surgical forceps-driver and a haptic feedback master device that could be applied to a tele-operated microsurgical robotic system for peripheral nerve surgery. Considering that the neurological damage could occur to the peripheral nerve when an excessive force is applied to the nerve ti
We develop a miniature suction-gripper with the goal to realize the novel robotic surgical instrument that can grip slippery and flexible peripheral nerves. In developing the instrument, we place a priority on devising the method that can robustly grip the nerve bundles during the surgical operation…
This paper describes additive self-folding, an origami-inspired rapid fabrication approach for creating actuatable compliant structures. Recent work in 3-D printing and other rapid fabrication processes have mostly focused on rigid objects or objects that can achieve small deformations. In contrast,…
Computational thinking is an important part of a modern education, and robotics provides a powerful tool for teaching programming logic in an interactive and engaging way. The robot garden presented in this paper is a distributed multi-robot system capable of running autonomously or under user contr…
Origami-engineering is an emerging design and manufacturing technology for creating 3-D robotic systems using 2-D designs. We present a new origami-inspired tele-micromanipulation system manufactured by printing and folding. The developed micromanipulation system consists of two miniature machines,…